enkindle
Verb
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Verb
enkindle (enkindles, present participle enkindling; past and past participle enkindled)
- (archaic, transitive) To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
- 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3:
- That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
- 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
- "By them enkindled, every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm, […]
- 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3:
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