Word meaning "death by fire"

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Other than immolation... Is there one? I've asked a few of my friends, all of whom are avid readers who read 1-2 books every day. All of them say, "I think so, but I just can't think of it. It's in the back of my mind". I keep thinking it starts with either an "ex-" or a "de-". One of my friends thinks it also might start with a "de-". Any suggestions, or am I going crazy? I was sure there was something other than immolation.
Thanks

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[nq:1]Other than immolation... Is there one?[/nq]
I don't think so. http://freethesaurus.net/ gives us:

Main Entry: self-immolation.
Synonyms: altruism, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, burnt offering, calcination, car of Jagannath, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, collection, combustion, commitment, concremation, consecration, cracking, cremation, cupellation, dedication, deflagration, destructive distillation, devotion, disembowelment, disinterest, disinterestedness, distillation, distilling, drink offering, ex voto offering, felo-de-se, flaming, hara-kiri, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, humility, immolation, incense, incineration, infanticide, libation, mactation, mass suicide, modesty, oblation, offering, offertory, oxidation, oxidization, parching, peace offering, piacular offering, pyrolysis, refining, ritual suicide, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, scorching, scorification, searing, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-murder, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, seppuku, singeing, smelting, suicide, suttee, sutteeism, thank offering, the stake, thermogenesis, unacquisitiveness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, vesication, votive offering, whole offering
None of these comes close to being a real alternative word - but there's a few phrases that use some of those terms.

Andrew
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[nq:1]Other than immolation... Is there one? I've asked a few of my friends, all of whom are avid readers who ... start with a "de-". Any suggestions, or am I going crazy? I was sure there was something other than immolation.[/nq]
Suttee

John Dean
Oxford

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[nq:2]Other than immolation...[/nq]
[nq:1]Suttee[/nq]
That's a rather specific kind.

Odysseus

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[nq:2]Suttee[/nq]
[nq:1]That's a rather specific kind.[/nq]
And?

John Dean
Oxford

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[nq:1]Other than immolation... Is there one? I've asked a few of my friends, all of whom are avid readers who ... start with a "de-". Any suggestions, or am I going crazy? I was sure there was something other than immolation.[/nq]
Are you thinking of "auto da fÃ©"?
It doesn't properly mean burning at the stake, but (thanks to Voltaire and Mel Brooks, I think) it's often thought of that way.

I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, (my daughter) will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?' (Mike Godwin, EFF http://www.eff.org/ )

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[nq:1]Other than immolation... Is there one?[/nq]
In Final Fantasy XI Online, we use a skillchain called "Liquefaction" to turn our enemies into liquid fire. A "liquefacient", then, would be something that causes this liquefaction to occur.

Damaeus

Damaeus - Damon M.

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[nq:1]Word meaning "death by fire"[/nq]
Burn

Damaeus - Damon M.

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[nq:2]Other than immolation... Is there one?[/nq]
[nq:1]In Final Fantasy XI Online, we use a skillchain called "Liquefaction" to turn our enemies into liquid fire. A "liquefacient", then, would be something that causes this liquefaction to occur.[/nq]
But liqufaction isn't fire. It's "becoming a liquid", and a "liquifacient" would be something that causes liqufaction, not something that causes fire. Games use al sorts of words loosely at best and incorrewctly at worst.

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[nq:2]In Final Fantasy XI Online, we use a skillchain called ... then, would be something that causes this liquefaction to occur.[/nq]
[nq:1]But liqufaction isn't fire. It's "becoming a liquid", and a "liquifacient" would be something that causes liqufaction, not something that causes fire. Games use al sorts of words loosely at best and incorrewctly at worst.[/nq]
I thought maybe he was writing a fictional or fantasy story, and the context of liquefaction does turn the monster into liquid.. liquid fire. In the game, the effect of fire is added by combining the proper elements. So if the original poster wanted to use that concept, s/he could combine liquefaction with some other effect or magical power to turn enemies into liquid fire.

Damaeus - Damon M.

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[nq:2]Other than immolation... Is there one?[/nq]
[nq:1]In Final Fantasy XI Online, we use a skillchain called "Liquefaction" to turn our enemies into liquid fire. A "liquefacient", then, would be something that causes this liquefaction to occur.[/nq]
Whenas in silks my Julia goes
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free;
Oh how that glittering taketh me!
Robert Herrick.

Ray
UK

Word meaning "death by fire"

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