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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
kindle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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‘An thou wert in love thy heart would be burning with passion and thou wouldst not taste the delight of sleep; for the sweet of love is like a green date509 which kindleth a coal of fire in the vitals.’
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It establisheth faith; it kindleth charity; the outward peace of the church, distilleth into peace of conscience; and it turneth the labors of writing, and reading of controversies, into treaties of mortification and devotion.
The Essays 2007
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Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
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Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
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Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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It putteth in mynde and kindleth, encreaseth hope, and strengtheneth.
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Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James 3. 1999
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