flagrate
To burn.
Verb
- To burn.
- This Lamp moreover stands on the Foot of an Eagle or Hawk, thereby, says Kircher, to represent how Typhon’s destructive and flagrating Power lying hid in the Sun, was made more temperate by a Humour which Silenus, the...
Origin
First attested in 1756; borrowed from Latin flagrātus, perfect passive participle of flagrō (“to burn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).