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Definition of Set on fire

1. Verb. Set fire to; cause to start burning. "Lightening set fire to the forest"

Definition of Set on fire

1. Verb. (transitive) To cause to begin to burn. ¹

2. Verb. (figuratively transitive) To arouse passionate feelings in. ¹

3. Verb. (past of set on fire) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Set On Fire

Literary usage of Set on fire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"If the correct inference from the testimony was that the cotton was on defendant's platform with Its consent, and was set on fire by its engine, ..."

2. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"... or persons whomsoever shall wilfully and maliciously set on fire any of the works to be made by virtue of this Act, or any ship or other vessel lying or ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"The ship was set on fire, and her commander, remaining in his place till the end, perished in the flames. There is no evidence that Douglas was a naval ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Many persons suppose that since cartridges of unfrozen dynamite may sometimes be set on fire and burned without exploding, it is safe to warm it upon a ..."

5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... would shut the Athenians in and set on fire their galleys ; by which means, ... set on fire ..."

6. Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict by Samuel Joseph May (1869)
"HOUSE set on fire. Soon after their failure to get a decision from the Court of Errors, an attempt was made to set her house on fire. ..."

7. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"At eleven o'clock the Augusta was set on fire, and at twelve she blew up with an astonishing blast. One of our people was killed in a galley by the fall of ..."

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