Word Meanings - MISKINDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

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• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• AMISSIBILITY
  The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• AMISSION
  Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne.
• AMISSIBLE
  Liable to be lost.
• PURPOSER
  1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
• KINDLER
  One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire."Kindlers of riot." Gay.
• AMISS
  Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at'
• PURPOSELY
  With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they
• KINDLESS
  Destitute of kindness; unnatural. "Kindless villain." Shak.
• PURPOSEFUL
  Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv.
• EXCITEMENT
  A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. (more info) 1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• INFLAME
  To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork. 5. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. Addison. Syn. --
• EXCITE
  To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. Syn. -- To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. -- To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which
• PURPOSEDLY
  In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland.
• KINDLE
  To bring forth young. Shak. The poor beast had but lately kindled. Holland.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
• SELF-EXCITE
  To energize or excite by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.
• REENKINDLE
  To enkindle again.