ignify

To form into fire.

Verb

  1. To form into fire.
    • 1647, Richard Tomlinson (translator and reviser), Jean de Renou⁽ᶠʳ⁾, A Medicinal Dispensatory, [1623, Jean de Renou, Dispensatorium medicum], page 68, For Ignition in ſome is the end of Uſtion, in others, Uſtion is not...
    • […]found, that the whole quantity of Aer ignify'd[…]. - 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport: Or Two Thouſand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, To Amuſe and Divert the Age, page 146:
    • […]ſerves to divide and mix ſuch parts of the fuel as are actually ignified and ſaturated with the ethereal fire, with the other freſh parts not yet actually laid hold of by the fire, or as yet but beginning to be...

Origin

From igni- + -fy.

Forms

ignifies ignifying ignified