inflamed, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈfleɪmd)
[f. inflame v. + -ed1.]
1. Set on fire, kindled, burning, blazing, in flames. Now rare.
| 1603 Florio Montaigne (1634) 300 Archimedes..saith, the Sunne is a God of enflamed yron. c 1611 Chapman Iliad viii. L iij b, I had conceipt, we should haue made retreate, By light of the inflamed fleet. 1774 J. Bryant Mythol. I. p. xix, It appears to have been an hollow and inflamed mountain. 1858 Greener Gunnery 261 The degree of heat in the inflamed fluid. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 37 A huge inflamed sun was breasting the horizon of a wide sheet of sea. |
b. Her. Depicted as in flames; flamant.
| 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. iv. (1660) 118 The Field is, Or, a Mountain Azure, inflamed, Proper. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xxi. §9 (ed. 3) 365 An antique Roman lamp or, inflamed ppr. |
2. Enkindled, fired in mind or feeling; fervent, glowing.
| 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 97 [He] with moost enflamed charite prayed for them. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. 190 The Duke of Myllan..nourished an inflamed desire to assubject it to him self. 1710 Norris Chr. Prud. i. 15 How we come to have such an inflamed Propension to sensible good is another question. 1746–7 Hervey Medit. (1818) 51 What suitable returns of inflamed and adoring devotion can we make to the Holy One of God? |
b. Passionately excited; hot with anger; enraged.
| 1612–32 Deloney Thomas of Reading in Thoms E.E. Prose Rom. (1858) I. 104 Neither Hodgekins nor Martin could intreat their inflamed Oast to let him downe. 1797 Mrs. Radcliffe Italian ii, They parted mutually inflamed. |
3. Affected with feverish or morbid inflammation; red or swollen from inflammation.
| 1599 H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner G ij b, [It] very much helpes an inflamed stomacke. 1789 W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 495 An emollient clyster, which..will serve as a fomentation to the inflamed parts. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 85 Our guide's eyes were..greatly inflamed. |
Hence inˈflamedly adv. rare, in an inflamed or excited manner; hotly, fervently.
| 1637 Bastwick Litany i. 1 My affections began..more inflamedlier to loue the place of permanent and glorious immortality. |