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Definition of Set aflame
1. Verb. Set fire to; cause to start burning. "Lightening set fire to the forest"
Entails: Ignite, Light
Generic synonyms: Burn, Combust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Aflame
Literary usage of Set aflame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical New Testament: Being the Literature of the New Testament by James Moffatt (1901)
"And in it the skies shall pass away with hurtling noise, The elements shall be
set aflame, 11 As these things are all thus to be dissolved, What must you be ..."
2. Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics by Henry Jones Ford (1919)
"... of verses with the lines: The railroad strike played merry hob, The land was
set aflame; Could Grover order out the troops To block the striker's game? ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"... heart be set aflame with love. Moreover, look you, sooner shall the waves Of
that same ocean cool the thirsty sun Than thy pale humor make me moderate. ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"... fearless, owning no man his master in thought or action, lovable always, with
an emotional nature generous in all its impulses, set aflame in the cause ..."
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