What does "incendiary" mean?
Incendiary: A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.
Additional senses
- 2.Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
- 3.Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. Paley. Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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