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Webster 1828 Edition

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Burning; wasting; destroying; expending; eating; devouring.

a. That destroys.

The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 4.

consuming

consuming ‎(comparative more consuming, superlative most consuming)

consuming ‎(plural consumings)

consumption; the process by which something is consumed
- 1985, Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (page 37)
  […] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations.