enkindle

American  

[en-kin-dl] / ɛnˈkɪn dl /

verb (used with or without object)

enkindled, enkindling

1. to kindle into flame, ardor, activity, etc.

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enkindle British  

/ ɪnˈkɪndəl /

verb

1. to set on fire; kindle

2. to excite to activity or ardour; arouse

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Other Word Forms

• enkindler
  noun

Etymology

Origin of enkindle

First recorded in 1540–50; en- ¹ + kindle ¹

Example Sentences

Again, perchance, In coming along, it pulls from out the air Some certain bodies, which by their own blows Enkindle its velocity.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Enkindle thou his lamp and fructify his garden, so that thou mayest become his real son and worthy of the favors and gift of the Almighty.”***

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Enkindle anger in me such as never was quelled!

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Enkindle, en-kin′dl, v.t. to kindle or set on fire: to inflame: to rouse.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

But O my rose, whom in my dreams I see, Enkindle with like bliss my waking gaze!

From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson