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Webster 1913 Edition
Conflagration
Conˊfla-gra′tion
,Noun.
[L.
conflagratio
: cf. F. conflagration
.] A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
Till one wide
conflagration
swallows all. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Conflagration
CONFLAGRATION
,Noun.
1.
A great fire or the burning of any great mass of combustibles, as a house, but more especially a city or a forest.2.
The burning of the world at the consummation of things, when the elements shall melt with fervent heat.