Combustion
the act of burning, the state of being burned. Spontaneous Combustion is Combustion occurring without any means taken on the part of man to produce it. A Combustion of the human body produced by occult internal causes is alleged to have occurred several times. Most chemists believe the Combustion of the human body in the way described an impossibility.
COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE, the national subsidized theater of France, formed in 1680 by the fusion of the two bodies into which Molière's company of actors had split. It is at present managed by regulations made in 1812, modified by subsequent resolutions.