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.
INCENDIARY In*cen"di*a*ry, a. Etym: [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 shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.
INCENDIOUS
In*cen"di*ous, a. Etym: [L. incendiosus burning, hot.]
Defn: Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.
[Obs.] Bacon.
— In*cen"di*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]
INCENSANT
In*cen"sant, a. Etym: [See Incense to anger.] (Her.)
Defn: A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.
INCENSATION
In`cen*sa"tion, n. (R. C. Ch.)