Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-FLA-GRA'TION
CON-FLA-GRA'TION, n. [L. conflagratio. See Flagrant.]
- A great fire or the burning of any great mass of combustibles, as a house, but more especially a city or forest. – Bentley.
- The burning of the world at the consummation of things, when “the elements shall melt with fervent heat.”
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