burn, incinerate
(verb) cause to undergo combustion; “burn garbage”; “The car burns only Diesel oil”
incinerate
(verb) become reduced to ashes; “The paper incinerated quickly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)
(transitive) to destroy by burning
incinerate (not comparable)
(obsolete) Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
• cantinière, creatinine, itinerance
Source: Wiktionary
In*cin"er*ate, Etym: [LL. incineratus, p. p. of incinerare to incinerate; L. pref. in- in + cinis, cineris, ashes.]
Definition: Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed. [Obs.] Bacon.
In*cin"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incinerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incinerating.]
Definition: To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn. Bacon. It is the fire only that incinerates bodies. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 January 2025
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; “they run things by the book around here”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
