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KINDLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set afire
Example:
a kindled fire
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
lighted; lit (set afire or burning)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb kindle
Context examples:
Her penetrative virginity exalted and disguised his own emotions, elevating his thoughts to a star-cool chastity, and he would have been startled to learn that there was that shining out of his eyes, like warm waves, that flowed through her and kindled a kindred warmth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her eyes kindled as they turned wistfully toward the window, but they fell on the old house opposite, and she shook her head with sorrowful decision.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"Is it, then, a bonfire just kindled?" I questioned.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She said it with a taunting pride in the midst of her frenzy—for it was little less—yet with an eager remembrance of it, in which the smouldering embers of a gentler feeling kindled for the moment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty’s most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc. against the duty, etc.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Have you really burned it? said Jo, turning very pale, while her eyes kindled and her hands clutched Amy nervously.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen—by conflagration: but how kindled?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had only time, in dressing, to glance at the solid furniture, the framed pieces of work (done, I supposed, by Steerforth's mother when she was a girl), and some pictures in crayons of ladies with powdered hair and bodices, coming and going on the walls, as the newly-kindled fire crackled and sputtered, when I was called to dinner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Meg's mild eyes kindled with anger as she pulled a crumpled note from her pocket and threw it at Jo, saying reproachfully, You wrote it, and that bad boy helped you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And while I sat there and looked out on the still trees and dim lawn, to a sweet air was sung in mellow tones the following strain:—He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
