Ignifies vs Lignifies - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between ignifies and lignifies

is that ignifies is (ignify) while lignifies is (lignify).

(head)

(ignify)

(obsolete) To form into fire.

(Stukeley)

(Webster 1913)

(head)

(lignify)

(en-verb)

To become wood.

(botany): To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.

(intransitive), (by extension ): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.

To turn into wood; to make ligneous.