What is "combustive"

Usage examples of "combustive".

I don't know if it was combustive shrapnel, or what, but it looks—bad.

She was such a picture of the martyr by the slow social combustive process, that it almost seemed to him he could see a pale lambent nimbus round her head.

A tough, smart man, thoroughly at home in the combustive Harlem of the time.

A constant stream of night-insects spiralled it like elyctrons, finding their occasional way through a crack in the glass and immolating themselves in its light with a little combustive burst.

A constant stream of night-insects spiralled it like elyc-trons, finding their occasional way through a crack in the glass and immolating themselves in its light with a little combustive burst.