flagrate/fləˈɡɹeɪt/EtymologyFirst attested in 1756; borrowed from Latin flagrātus, perfect passive participle of flagrō (“to burn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).verbTo burn.“This Lamp moreover stands on the Foot of an Eagle or Hawk, thereby, says Kircher, to represent how Typhon’s destructive and flagrating Power lying hid in the Sun, was made more temperate by a Humour which Silenus, the Page of the aforesaid Bacchus, had the Command of”