INCENDIARY

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
a.

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

4.
a.

Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. Paley. Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.

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