v. Obs. [f. L. flagrāt- ppl. stem of flagrāre to burn.]
1. intr. To burst into flame; to DEFLAGRATE.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, II. 101. If any coaly matter be thrown into the crucible, in which this salt is fusing; it does not flagrate or fulgurate, as nitre does; but mixes and flows smoothly and uniformly, and gives a mass, that, by fusion, is capable of dissolving all metals and metallics.
2. trans. To injure by fire; to burn.
Hence Flagrating ppl. a.
1705. Greenhill, Art Embalming, iii. 336. 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 Page of the aforesaid Bacchus, had the Command of.
