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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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" n 1: a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: {arsonist}, {firebug}] 2: a bomb that is designed to start fires [syn: {incendiary bomb}]
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