flammation

English

Etymology

From flame +‎ -ation.

Noun

flammation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of setting on fire; inflammation
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Arsenic […] being artificial and sublimed with salt, will not endure flammation

References

• “flammation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.