Definition for

incendiary


Causing or adapted to cause combustion; used in starting a fire or conflagration; igniting; inflammatory: as, incendiary materials; an incendiary match or bomb. Specifically

Pertaining or relating to or consisting in malicious or criminal setting on fire or burning: as, an incendiary mania; the incendiary torch; an incendiary fire.

Tending to excite or inflame passion, sedition, or violence.

noun – A person who maliciously sets fire to a house, shop, barn, or other inflammable property; one who is guilty of arson.

noun – One who or that which excites or inflames; a person who excites antagonism and promotes factious quarrels; a violent agitator.

adjective – Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property

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

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