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Incendiary - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Incendiary : adj
1: involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary
fire"
2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incitive, inflammatory,
instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious]
3: capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or
burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs"
(noun)
1: a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: arsonist,
firebug]
2: a bomb that is designed to start fires; are most effective
against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary
bomb, firebomb]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Incendiary : \In*cen"di*a*ry\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Incendiaries.
[L. incendiarius: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to
inflame.]
1. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or
other valuable or other valuable property.
2. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes
quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries.
--Bentley.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Incendiary : \In*cen"di*a*ry\, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium
a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to
inflame.]
1. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning
of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as
incendiary crime.
2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or
quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. --Paley.
Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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INCENDIARY, crim. law. One who maliciously and willfully sets another
person's house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson.
2. This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states
according to their several provisions. The civil law punished it with death,
Dig. 47, 9, 12, 1, by the offender being cast into the fire. Id. 48, 19, 28,
12; Code, 9, 1, 11. Vide Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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