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flammation
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English
Etymology
Noun
flammation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of setting on fire; inflammation
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Arsenic […] being artificial and sublimed with salt, will not endure flammation
References
- “flammation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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