Deflagro, déflagras, pen. cor. deflagiâre. Cic.To burne exceedingly, or to be burned. Also to asswage: to diminish: to waxe colde.Deflagrare ardore.Cic.To be consumed with fire.Deflagrare flamma.Cic.To be burned.Communi incendio deflagrare.Cic.To bee destroyed with other, as it were in a common fire togither.Phaëthon ictu fulminis deflagrauit.Cicer.Was killed and burnt with lightning. Deflagrare, Deferuescere, Languescere. Lucan. To asswage or diminish.Spes animum subibat, deflagrare iras vestras posse. Li. They conceiued a hope that your anger mighte asswage or be alayed. Seditione paulatim deflagrante. Tacit.
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dēflāgro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a.I.To burn down, to be consumed by fire (freq. only in Cic.; cf. conflagro). A.Neutr. 1.Lit.: qua nocte natus esset Alexander, eadem Dianae Ephesiae templum deflagravisse, Cic. N. D. 2, 27 fin.; id. Div. 1, 17; id. Phil. 2, 36, 91; id. Par. 4, 2, 31; id. Ac. 2, 37 fin.; Liv. 5, 53 fin.; 10, 44; Suet. Tib. 48: Phaëthon ictu fulminis deflagravit, Cic. Off. 3, 25.—2.Trop., to perish, be destroyed: communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare, Cic. Sest. 46, 99: ruere ac deflagrare omnia passuri estis?Liv. 3, 52.—B.Act. (very rare): fana flammā deflagrata, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19: quae (sol) proxime currendo deflagrat, Vitr. 6, 1.— 2.Trop., to destroy utterly: in cinere deflagrati imperii, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 12 (cf. deflagratio fin.).—II.To burn out, cease burning; rare, and only trop. of the fire of passion, = defervesco, to abate, be allayed: deflagrare iras vestras posse, Liv. 40, 8: deflagrante paullatim seditione, Tac. H. 2, 29: iram senis deflagrare pati, Lact. Mort. Pers. 14, 5.—Transf. to persons: sic deflagrare minaces Incassum, Luc. 4, 280.