ignify

English

Etymology

From Latin ignis (“fire”) + -fy.

Verb

ignify (third-person singular simple present ignifies, present participle ignifying, simple past and past participle ignified)

  1. (obsolete) To form into fire.
    • 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport Or Two Thousand Paradoxes Merilly Argued:
      whole quantity of Aer ignify'd

References
  • ignify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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