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Incendiary   /ɪnsˈɛndiɛri/   Listen
Incendiary

adjective
1.
Involving deliberate burning of property.
2.
Arousing to action or rebellion.  Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious.
3.
Capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily.  "Incendiary bombs"
noun
(pl. incendiaries)
1.
A criminal who illegally sets fire to property.  Synonyms: arsonist, firebug.
2.
A bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel).  Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb.



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"Incendiary" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the shackle. "Have you heard of the incendiary proclamation issued in Boston by David Walker, telling all slaves that it is their ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
 
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... and wound, and yield, and conquer still. Let this immortal life, where'er it comes, Walk in a crowd of loves and martyrdoms. Let mystic deaths wait on it, and wise souls be The love-slain witnesses of this life of thee. O sweet incendiary! show here thy art Upon this carcase of a hard, cold heart; Let all thy scattered shafts of light, that play Among the leaves of thy large books of day, Combined against this breast at once break in, And take away from me myself and sin; This glorious ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
 
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... intrusted most extensively, and, property gone and strength failing, his misfortunes, which he had at all times borne with exemplary patience and fortitude, had culminated in the loss of his old home, the home of his father before him, by the hand of the incendiary. He had left me a precious legacy in his memory, to which my present ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
 
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... to deal too leniently with their customers; or, in other words, to pay the money, and ask no questions. It is calculated that one fire in seven which occur among the small class of shopkeepers in London is an incendiary fire. Mr. Braidwood, whose experience is larger than that of any other person, tells us that the greatest ingenuity is sometimes exercised to deceive the officers of the insurance company as to the value of the insured stock. In one instance, when the Brigade had succeeded in ...
— Fires and Firemen • Anon.
 
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... manifested the activity of the institutions that uphold religion and educate the people. He began with the woman punished for the illicit sale of spirits, the boy for theft, the tramp for tramping, the incendiary for setting a house on fire, the banker for fraud, and that unfortunate Lydia Shoustova imprisoned only because they hoped to get such information as they required from her. Then he thought of the sectarians punished ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
 
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