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Definition: INCENDIOUS

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb incendiously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(incendiously)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective incendious.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Incendious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Incendious \In*cen"di*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression incendiosus burning, hot.]. (references)

Definition: INCENDIOUS

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb incendiously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(incendiously)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective incendious.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "INCENDIOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Incendious \In*cen"di*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression incendiosus burning, hot.]. (references)