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Webster 1913 Edition

Incendiary

In-cen′di-a-ry

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
;
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.

In-cen′di-a-ry

,
Adj.
[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 device
,
a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.
–
Incendiary shell
,
a bombshell. See
Carcass
, 4.

Webster 1828 Edition

Incendiary

INCEND'IARY

,
Noun.
[L. incendiarius, from incendo, to burn; in and candeo, to shine, or be on fire.]
1.
A person who maliciously sets fire to another man's dwelling house, or to any outhouse, being parcel of the same, as a barn or stable; one who is guilty of arson.
2.
Any person who sets fire to a building.
3.
A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels.
Several cities of Greece drove them out as incendiaries.
Incendiaries of figure and distinction, who are the inventors and publishers of gross falsehoods, cannot be regarded but with the utmost detestation.
4.
He or that which excites.

INCEND'IARY

,
Adj.
Pertaining to the malicious burning of a dwelling; as an incendiary purpose.
1.
Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition or quarrels.

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