Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-FLAM-MA'TION, n. [L. inflammatio.]

1. The act of setting on fire or inflaming.
2. The state of being in flame. – Temple. Wilkins.
3. In medicine and surgery, a redness and swelling of any part of an animal body, attended with heat, pain and febrile symptoms. – Encyc.
4. Violent excitement; heat; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the body politic, or of parties.