All 5 Uses of

kindle

in

Ulysses, by James Joyce

She... Mild fire of wine kindled his veins.†
Chpt 8 *

kindled = aroused or inspired

He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when necessary, knelt on one knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons of best Abram coal at twenty-one shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs Flower and M'Donald of 14 D'Olier street, kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of the air.†
Chpt 17

Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two, had kindled fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the college of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the county of Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an unfurnished room of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: of his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss Juli†
Chpt 17

Definitions:

(1) (kindle as in: dry twigs to kindle a fire)
start (a fire)
(2) (kindle as in: it may kindle her interest)
arouse or inspire
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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