The Only Use of
combustion
in
Macbeth
- The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down: and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death; And prophesying, with accents terrible, Of dire combustion and confus'd events, New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird Clamour'd the live-long night; some say the earth Was feverous, and did shake.†
Scene 2.1
Definition:
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(combustion) the act of burning
or metaphorically:
a state of violent disturbance and excitement