Incendiary

n.	1.
	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.
a.	1.
	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. Incendiary device a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb. Incendiary shell a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.

Noun	1.	incendiary - a criminal who illegally sets fire to property Synonyms: arsonist, firebug
	2.	incendiary - a bomb that is designed to start fires; are most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb
Adj.	1.	incendiary - involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire"
	2.	incendiary - arousing to action or rebellion Synonyms: incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious, inflammatory
	3.	incendiary - capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs"

INCENDIARY, crim. law. One who maliciously and willfully sets another person's house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson.
     2. This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states according to their several provisions. The civil law punished it with death, Dig. 47, 9, 12, 1, by the offender being cast into the fire. Id. 48, 19, 28, 12; Code, 9, 1, 11. Vide Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.

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