quenchcoal | Idiomator

Meaning: (obsolete,idiomatic,Puritanism)Apersonorthingthatunderminesreligiouszeal; hence aheartless,uncaringperson with respect to religion.1615,Samuel Ward,A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal:Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and muchquench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled.1642,Daniel Rogers,Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure, page868:You arequenchcoal; no sparkle of grace can kindle upon your cold hearth.1817, “William Prynne”, inAthenae Oxonienses, volume 3,page847:In 1636 he published two books at once, or immediately after each other. One of them was calledTheQuench Coal, in answer to that calledA Coal from the Altar; against placing the Communion-Table Altarwise.

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