The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Incendiaries. [L. incendiarius: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.]
Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
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A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries.
--Bentley.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of incendiary English)
Usage examples of "incendiaries".
Up to the dome and onto the roofs which should be flat, but in fact are littered with towers, pinnacles, gutters, and statues, all designed to catch and hold incendiaries out of reach.
Nine incendiaries tonight and a land mine that looked as though it were going to catch on the dome till the wind drifted its parachute away from the church.
I wear myself out every night trying to do my job and watch Langby, making sure none of the incendiaries falls without my seeing it.
Six incendiaries so far, and one almost went into that great hole over the choir.
I don't know what I intended to say—some pompous drivel about my willingness to serve in the firewatch of history, standing guard against the falling incendiaries of the human heart, silent and saintly.
At Paris the judgment prepared against the incendiaries of the tax-offices could not be given.
At the head of these incendiaries are the municipal officers of Saint-Thomas, except the mayor, who has taken to flight.
He had returned home, treated the people of his village to a dinner, and attempted to form them into a body of guards to protect themselves against incendiaries and brigands.
At Castelnau, near Cahors,[28] one of those who, the preceding year, marched against the incendiaries, M.
Exposed for two years to ignominious dangers, to every species of outrage, to innumerable persecutions, to the steel of the assassin, to the firebrands of incendiaries, to the most infamous charges, 'to the denouncement of' their corrupted domestics, to domiciliary visits" prompted by the commonest street rumor, "to arbitrary imprisonment by the Committee of Inquiry," deprived of their civil rights, driven out of primary meetings, "they are held accountable for their murmurs, and punished for a sensibility which would touch the heart in a suffering criminal.
They will invoke liberty, but liberty without crime, the liberty which is maintained without dungeons, without inquisitors, without incendiaries, without brigands, without forced oaths, without illegal coalitions, without mob outrages.
Dunworthy had said she was absolutely fearless, and she must have been, darting back and forth between crashing beams and falling incendiaries, the net opening on who-knows-what and no guarantee it would stay open, no guarantee the roof wouldnât fall in.
Dunworthy had said she was absolutely fearless, and she must have been, darting back and forth between crashing beams and falling incendiaries, the net opening on who-knows-what and no guarantee it would stay open, no guarantee the roof wouldn’t fall in.
The ship had been emptied of her crew, guns and ammunition, though great canvas bundles of incendiaries had been placed throughout her decks with fuses leading up to the forecastle.
The crews had evidently been billeted in the city and the Danish fleet had become the kingdom of rats and of Chase's men, who worked in the dark to sever fuses and dump incendiaries overboard.