heateth

Verb

heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal or obsolete) heat or (dialectal) het)

1. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
   • I'll heat up the water.
2. (intransitive) To become hotter.
   • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
   • Ile leaue you my ſweete Ladie, for a while, pray walke ſoftly, doe not heate your bloud, what, I muſt haue care of you.c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...
4. (figuratively, transitive) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
   • A noble emulation heats your breaſt, / And your own fame now robs you of your reſt.a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyric on his Coronation.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […]...
5. (slang, transitive) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
   • The massage heated her up.

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