Noun
The state of burning.
The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
Violent agitation; confusion; tumult.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. William Crookes
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. Nick Hornby
If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication. Julius Sumner Miller
If our Bodily Life is a burning, our Spiritual Life is a being burnt, a Combustion (or, is precisely the inverse the case?); Death, therefore, perhaps a Change of Capacity. Novalis
While in Campania the burning of the earth makes ashes, in Tuscany the combustion of the stone makes carbuncular sand. Both are excellent in walls but one is better to use for buildings on land, the other for piers under salt water. Vitruvius
Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. Rick Riordan