| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun incendiary.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (incendiarily) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective incendiary.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (incendiary) | 1. A criminal who illegally sets fire to property.[Wordnet]. 2. A bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel).[Wordnet]. 3. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.[Websters]. 4. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.[Websters]. | |
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Date "INCENDIARIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Specialty Definition: incendiary
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] 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: [Noun] Any person who sets fire to a building.. | 3: [Noun] 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: [Noun] He or that which excites.. | 5: [Adjective] Pertaining to the malicious burning of a dwelling; as an incendiary purpose.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Law | INCENDIARY, crim. law. 1. One who maliciously and willfully sets another person's house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson. 2. This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states according to their several provisions. The civil law punished it with death, Dig. 47, 9, 12, 1, by the offender being cast into the fire. Id. 48, 19, 28, 12; Code, 9, 1, 11. Vide Dane's Ab. Index, h.t. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Incendiary refers to any fire that has been deliberately set. While it is most often used to refer to crimes of arson, it is also technically correct to use it for any fire which has been deliberately started. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] Capable of causing fire. (references) | 2: [Adjective] Informality, emotionally charged. Politics is an incendiary topic; it tends to cause fights to break out. (references) | 3: [Noun] Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon. The military used incendiaries to destroy the building, fortunately the fire didn't spread. (references) |
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Common Expressions: incendiary
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Incendiary bomb | A bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Incendiary bomb | Incendiary bombs are bombs designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using materials such as napalm, thermite, or white phosphorus. Napalm proper is no longer in use by the United States Army although reportedly similar derivative compounds are currently in active use. (references) | ||
| Incendiary device | An incendiary device is a device or weapon designed to create a fire. (references) | ||
| Incendiary Pig | An incendiary pig is a weapon used in ancient Roman warfare. An attack with the weapon involved collecting several pigs, covering them with an accelerant - commonly pitch or tar - and setting them alight. As a result the pigs, not overly happy about being on fire, would run squealing towards an oncoming army. Although incapable of inflicting heavy damage without igniting flammable enemy units or fortifications, they were effective in disrupting enemy infantry formations. (references) | ||
| Incendiary shell | A bombshell. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| No 76 Special Incendiary Grenade | The No. 76 was an incendiary grenade based on white phosphorus used during World War II. (references) | ||
| Rants and Incendiary Tracts | The list follows Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illumination 1558-Present, a book edited by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey. It is an anthology of 56 rants. (references) | ||
| White phosphorus incendiary | White phosphorus is a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus which has found extensive military application as a smoke-screening agent and secondarily as an incendiary weapon. It is commonly referred to in military jargon as "WP" or "white phos". The Vietnam War era slang Willie Pete or Wiley P is still occasionally heard. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: incendiary
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Ammunition with incendiary projectiles | Military & Defense | Ammunition for military use where the projectile contains a chemical mixture which bursts into flame on contact with the air or on impact. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Incendiary device | Business | Any self contained device intended to create an intense fire that can damage normally flame resistant or retardant materials. (references) | |
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