Thesaurus: incendiary

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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.
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.
5. adj. involving deliberate burning of property
6. adj. arousing to action or rebellion
7. adj. capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily
8. n. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
9. n. a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)
10. 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. 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.
11. j:93/n:7 a. involving deliberate burning of property s. arousing to action or rebellion s. capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily