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Webster 1913 Edition
Incendiary
In-cen′di-a-ry
(?; 277)
, Noun.
pl.
Incendiaries
(#)
. 1.
Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
2.
A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
Several cities . . . drove them out as
incendiaries
. Bentley.
In-cen′di-a-ry
,Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property;
as,
incendiary
material; as incendiary
crime.2.
Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.
Paley.
Incendiary device
, a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.
– Incendiary shell
, a bombshell. See
Carcass
, 4.Webster 1828 Edition
Incendiary
INCEND'IARY
,Noun.
1.
A person who maliciously sets fire to another man's dwelling house, or to any outhouse, being parcel of the same, as a barn or stable; one who is guilty of arson.2.
Any person who sets fire to a building.3.
A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels. Several cities of Greece drove them out as incendiaries.
Incendiaries of figure and distinction, who are the inventors and publishers of gross falsehoods, cannot be regarded but with the utmost detestation.
4.
He or that which excites.INCEND'IARY
,Adj.
1.
Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition or quarrels.Definition 2024
incendiary
incendiary
English
Adjective
incendiary (comparative more incendiary, superlative most incendiary)
- Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
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- Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion.
- Inflammatory, emotionally charged.
- Politics is an incendiary topic; it tends to cause fights to break out.
Translations
capable of causing fire
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intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion
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inflammatory, emotionally charged
Noun
incendiary (plural incendiaries)
- Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon.
- The military used incendiaries to destroy the building. Fortunately, the fire didn't spread.
- One who maliciously sets fires; an arsonist.
- (figuratively) One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels; an agitator.
- Bentley
- Several cities […] drove them out as incendiaries.
- Bentley
Translations
something capable of causing fire
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