Obs. [as if ad. L. *flagrātiōn-em, agent-n. f. flagrāre to blaze.] The action of bursting into flame or blazing up; burning; a conflagration.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 142. Unless the Hydropick moisture … be exhausted by flagration.
1694. Westmacott, Scripture Herbal (1695), 214. If it [Spirit] take Fire … and Consume even to the Flagration and Explosion of the Gunpowder.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
1847. in Craig.
fig. 1679. G. R., trans. Boyatuan’s Theat. World, II. 186. For it fortuned so after the Universal Flagration of Italy.
