enfire
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈfaɪə(ɹ)/, /ɛnˈfaɪə(ɹ)/
Verb
enfire (third-person singular simple present enfires, present participle enfiring, simple past and past participle enfired)
- (archaic, transitive) To set on fire.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne in Honour of Love:
- So hard those heavenly beauties he enfired
References
- “enfire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.