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adjective

Incendiary adj.

Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.

Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.

Incendiary device, a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.

Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.

noun

Incendiary n. (pl. incendiaries)

Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. "Several cities... drove them out as incendiaries."

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Etymology of 'Incendiary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incendiary" Quotes from Famous Books

... growled Riccabocca, jumping into bed and drawing the clothes fiercely over him. "Put out the candle, and get along with you—do, you villainous old incendiary!" ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various

... her as if she had said something incendiary. The picturesque aspect of the struggle had evidently not appealed to him. But he smiled grimly when he said: "Now there spoke the blood of the fighting Carterets: hope you won't change your mind, my deah." And with that he dived into his ...

— A Fool For Love • Francis Lynde

... is irresponsible, despotic rule. The child is born into the exercise of that right; his whole mental constitution is imbued with its exercise. Hence for twenty or thirty years—not by virtue of law, but against law—the mails have been searched throughout the South for incendiary matter, with a strictness of censorship unknown to any Government of Europe. Northern men and Europeans immigrating to the South have uniformly been quietly dragooned and terrorized into the acceptance of theories and usages wholly unknown to ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... millions of men as a trifling sacrifice for the great object of humiliating France and bringing her back to the limits of the old monarchy. This pamphlet was circulated extensively in the German departments united to France, in Holland, and in Switzerland. The number of incendiary publications which everywhere abounded indicated but too plainly that if the nations of the north should be driven back towards the Arctic regions they would in their turn repulse their conquerors towards the south; and no man of common sense could doubt that if the French eagles were planted in ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... then they went to the door and peered out, and the incendiary always greeted them with cheerful nods. On these occasions Big Anne sometimes said: "Oh, very well, me good woman. Just you sit brazenin' there till the patrol comes round this way, and then if I don't give you in charge as sure as the sun's shinin' crooked over our ...

— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane

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