Incendiary /(?; 277)/

In·cen·di·a·ry

Incendiary

n.

pl. Incendiaries

  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.

Incendiary

a.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds

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