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1. Not set on fire.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 602. When any of those … Bodies come to bee Inflamed then they gather a much greater Heat, than others have un-inflamed.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 15. The more gross and uninflamed parts must sometimes needs interrupt our sight of that fire.
1743. Young, Nt. Th., IV. 647. Rise odours sweet from incense uninflam’d?
1784. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., II. 163. That this inflammable body of coal should have remained uninflamed … seems highly improbable.
2. fig. Not emotionally warmed or excited.
1714. Young, Force of Relig., II. 199. Oh! let thy thought o’er our past converse rove, And show one moment uninflam’d with love!
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. I. 204/2. You enunciate even these sentences,… the most seditious, uninflamed, unwarmed.
1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 235. So hard is it to escape … uninflamed by the tumult of partisanship which besets the doors.
3. Path. Not affected by inflammation.
1793. J. Hunter, Treat. Blood, etc. (1794), 280. The uninflamed ear dried clear and transparent.
1813. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 75. That the circulation is slower in inflamed than in uninflamed arteries.
1866. Aitken, Pract. Med., II. 911. Dry, imbricated scales … resting upon a perfectly uninflamed surface.
