Word Meanings - CONFLAGRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Pope.

CONFLAGRATION
A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Pope.
INCENDIARISM
The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.
ARSON
The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton. Note: The definition of this crime is varied by statues in different
PARSONIC; PARSONICAL
Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical. Vainglory glowed in his parsonic heart. Colman. -- Par*son"ic*al*ly, adv.
PARSONISH
Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.
PARSON
A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls. 2. Any clergyman having ecclesiastical
PARSONED
Furnished with a parson.
IMPARSONEE
Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.
PARSONAGE
A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish. 2. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent