Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Incinerate \In*cin"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incinerated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Incinerating}.]
   To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn. --Bacon.

         It is the fire only that incinerates bodies. --Boyle.