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Definition of Incendiary

1. Noun. A criminal who illegally sets fire to property.

2. Adjective. Involving deliberate burning of property. "An incendiary fire"

3. Noun. A bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel).

4. Adjective. Arousing to action or rebellion.

5. Adjective. Capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily. "Incendiary bombs"

Definition of Incendiary

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

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

Definition of Incendiary

1. Adjective. Capable of causing fire. ¹

2. Adjective. Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion ¹

3. Adjective. Inflammatory, emotionally charged. ¹

4. Noun. Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incendiary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incendiary

incaving incavity incavo ince incede inceded incedes inceding incedingly incelebrity

incend incended incendiaries incendiarism incendiarisms incendiary (current term) incendiary bomb incending incendious incendive

incendivity incends incensation incensations incense incense-boat incense boat incense boats incense cedar incense tree

Literary usage of Incendiary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"MAIL CIRCULATION OF incendiary PUBLICATIONS. MR. CALHOUN moved that so much of the President's message as related to the mail transmission of incendiary ..."

2. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"In addition to this type of incendiary material, it was desirable to have a ... incendiary DEVICES The incendiary devices used during the late war included: ..."

3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"It would infringe the reserved rights of the States, because it would assume the right of Congress to decide what papers are incendiary or intended to ..."

4. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1860)
"incendiary Publication!. SATURDAY, April 2. Admission of Michigan. ... incendiary Publications. The bill to prevent the circulation the mails of incendiary ..."

5. Rambles about Portsmouth: Sketches of Persons, Localities, and Incidents of by Charles Warren Brewster, William Henry Young Hackett, Lawerence Shorey (1869)
"There is a monomania pervading the incendiary, which shuts out all ideas of ... In December, 1804, the incendiary torch was applied to several buildings in ..."

6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"If that is to be an incendiary, God grant I may continue so! In this administration it was that I was dismissed from office. Now, sir, I do not know that in ..."

7. English Agriculture in 1850-51 by James Caird (1852)
"incendiary FIRES — INDUCING, WITH OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES, GREAT DESPONDENCE ... These incendiary fires are said to be of almost nightly occurrence in this and ..."

8. An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that by Francis Plowden (1806)
"But it seems I went to Belfast in the character of an incendiary; I went to Dungannon in the character of an incendiary. Now I vent to neither of those ..."

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