enkindled

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Too many times ablaze    With fatuous fires, Enkindled by his wiles    To new embraces, Did I, by wilful ways    And baseless ires, Return the anxious smiles    Of friendly faces.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

For in a two-fold manner is that wind Enkindled all: it trembles into heat Both by its own velocity and by Repeated touch of fire.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Take the fire; All that thou canst; by Roman hand at least Enkindled.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan