Crossword clues for incendiary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.]
Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
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Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.
--Paley.Incendiary device, a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.
Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400 as a noun, "person who sets malicious fires;" mid-15c. as an adjective, "capable of being used to set fires," from Latin incendiarius "causing a fire," from incendium "conflagration," from incendere "set on fire," figuratively, "incite, rouse, enrage," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + *candere "to set alight, cause to glow," related to candere "to shine" (see candle). Figurative sense of "enflaming passions" (adj.) is from 1610s. Military use, of bombs, shells, etc., attested from 1871. The obsolete verb incend is attested from c.1500.
Wiktionary
a. Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire. n. 1 Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon. 2 One who maliciously sets fires; an arsonist. 3 (context figurative English) One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels; an agitator.
WordNet
adj. involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire"
arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious]
capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs"
n. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: arsonist, firebug]
a bomb that is designed to start fires; are most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, firebomb]
Wikipedia
Incendiary means "capable of causing fire". It may also refer to:
- Incendiary device, a device designed to cause fires
- Incendiary ammunition, a projectile designed to set fire to a target
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Incendiary (novel), a novel by Chris Cleave
- Incendiary (film), a 2008 film based on the novel, directed by Sharon Maguire
- Incendiary, a 2010 British film, directed by Ross Nickson
- Incendiary: The Willingham Case, a 2011 documentary film about the Cameron Todd Willingham arson murder case
- Incendiary, a hardcore punk band from Long Island, NY
Incendiary is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England carried out on the same day it was published. It won the 2005 Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award. A 2008 film with the same name was based on it.
Incendiary is a 2008 British drama film portraying the aftermath of a terrorist attack at a football match. It is directed by Sharon Maguire and stars Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, and Matthew Macfadyen. It is about an adulterous woman's life that is torn apart when her husband and four-year-old son are killed in a suicide bombing at Emirates Stadium during an Arsenal F.C. match. It is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Chris Cleave.
Usage examples of "incendiary".
Squadrons of combat Remoras crisscrossed the sky, dropping incendiary bombs primarily in unoccupied areas, though a few struck warehouses and governmental buildings.
If a raid came, he would call upon the men in his block to fight any incendiary bombs that fell.
It was constantly stressed that the best time to tackle a fire was the moment the incendiary bomb dropped, even if high-explosive bombs were also falling.
The sight of her was incendiary, clad in that narrow breastband and hipsnugs that displayed every lush curve of her long body.
When Orsini attempted to execute the sentence of death on the Emperor of the French, in obedience to the order of the Carbonari, of which the Emperor was a member, he was, if the theory of the origin of government in compact be true, no more an assassin than was the officer who executed on the gallows the rebel spies and incendiaries Beal and Kennedy.
The ruperts stationed two of the jundies in the room with me and then left, presumably in case I was lying and was about to explode a string of incendiary devices.
Bobrowski the incendiary and his crony Materna with whom it all began?
He is unable to believe that Bobrowski the great robber, or Materna, robber, incendiary, and ancestor, ever gave flesh to this skeleton.
I heard that incendiary fires were springing up all over Meerut and that mutiny had broken out there.
Federates had occupied the opera-house immediately after the eighteenth of March and had made a starting-place right at the top for their Mongolfier balloons, which carried their incendiary proclamations to the departments, and a state prison right at the bottom.
The Rebels had the search-and-destroy tactics down to perfection, using incendiary charges their lab people had devised that threw white phosphorus and napalm upon exploding.
The Rebels had pumped more than five thousand rounds commost of them incendiary rounds -- into the city.
Black puffs, up to eight feet in diameter, appeared behind and alongside the plane, and machine-gun fire from the ground followed it for a short time as Truelove released the third bomb, an incendiary cluster, on a two story building with a sawtooth roof.
Iris sat on the train enroute to Cranford Hall and stared at the passing scenery without seeing the craters made by German bombs, the houses reduced to rubble, trees scorched from incendiaries.
They lived in a land torn with war among mountains and Domains alike, Cassandra in a Tower beset by air-cars and incendiaries, Allart in a land aflame with forest fire and raging lightnings, striking like arrows.