Kindle
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| + | # {{lb|en|transitive}} To start (a [[fire]]) or light (a [[torch]], a match, coals, etc.). | ||
| + | #* '''1841''', ''Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales'', page 336: | ||
| + | #*: If a person '''kindle''' a fire in the house of another person, let him pay for the house to the owner, if it be burned. | ||
| + | #* '''1898''', {{w|J. Meade Falkner}}, {{w|Moonfleet}} Chapter 4 | ||
| + | #*: And then it was that I first perceived the danger in which I stood; for there was no hope of '''kindling''' a light, and I doubted now whether even in the light I could ever have done much to dislodge the great slab of slate. | ||
| + | #* {{quote-journal|en|year=2013|month=July-August|author={{w|Henry Petroski}} | ||
| + | |title=[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/4/geothermal-energy Geothermal Energy] | ||
| + | |volume=101|issue=4|magazine={{w|American Scientist}} | ||
| + | |passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to '''kindle''' a flame.}} | ||
| + | # {{lb|en|transitive|figuratively}} To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc). | ||
| + | #: {{ux|en|He '''kindled''' an enthusiasm for the project in his fellow workers.}} | ||
| + | # {{lb|en|intransitive|figuratively}} To begin to grow or take hold. | ||
| + | #* {{RQ:Fielding Tom Jones}} | ||
| + | #*: The doctor now interposed, and prevented the effects of a wrath which was '''kindling''' between Jones and Thwackum {{...}} | ||
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- Template:Lb To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
- 1841, Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, page 336:
- If a person kindle a fire in the house of another person, let him pay for the house to the owner, if it be burned.
- 1898, Template:W, Template:W Chapter 4
- And then it was that I first perceived the danger in which I stood; for there was no hope of kindling a light, and I doubted now whether even in the light I could ever have done much to dislodge the great slab of slate.
- Template:Quote-journal
- 1841, Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, page 336:
- Template:Lb To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
- Template:Lb To begin to grow or take hold.
- Template:RQ:Fielding Tom Jones
- The doctor now interposed, and prevented the effects of a wrath which was kindling between Jones and Thwackum Template:...
- Template:RQ:Fielding Tom Jones
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