Incendiary /(?; 277)/
In·cen·di·a·ry
Incendiary
n.
pl. Incendiaries
- Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
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A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries.
Incendiary
a.
- 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.
Phrases & Compounds
- Incendiary device
- a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.
- Incendiary shell
- a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.