Incendiary
[ɪn'sendɪərɪ] or [ɪn'sɛndɪɛri]
Definition
(adj.) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; 'an incendiary agent'; 'incendiary bombs' .
(adj.) arousing to action or rebellion .
(adj.) involving deliberate burning of property; 'an incendiary fire' .
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Definition
(n.) Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
(n.) A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
(a.) Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
(a.) Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inflammatory, seditious, factious.
n. [1]. Burner of buildings.[2]. Firebrand, political agitator.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INCENDIARISM]
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Definition
n. one that sets fire to a building &c. maliciously: one who promotes quarrels:—pl. Incen′diaries.—adj. wilfully setting fire to: relating to incendiarism: tending to excite quarrels.—n. Incen′diarism.—adj. Incend′ious (obs.) promoting faction.
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Examples
- The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They said they believed it was an incendiary document, leveled at the government. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They have decided at last that we are a battalion of incendiary, blood-thirsty Garibaldians in disguise! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That was the picture, just as I got it from incendiary books of travel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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