Inflamed meaning

As if inflamed by the sight, he raised his arm and addressed the people, almost shouting:

The rebellion put an end to the growing reconciliation between Roman Catholics and Protestants; religious passions were now violently inflamed, and the Orangemen and Catholics divided the island into two hostile factions.

He was himself a Tory, not from rational conviction - for his serious opinion was that one form of government was just as good or as bad as another - but from mere passion, such as inflamed the Capulets against the Montagues, or the Blues of the Roman circus against the Greens.

The war of national aggrandizement, being in its nature a crusade, inflamed the religious enthusiasm of the people.

The swelling, heat and pain may sometimes be relieved by mere change of position altering the flow of blood to the inflamed part.