incendiaryadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪnˈsɛndɪəri/,

/ɪnˈsɛndʒ(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈsɛndiˌɛri/

Forms: Also 1600s en-.

Etymology: < Latin incendiārius causing conflagration, setting on fire, < incendium burning, conflagration, < incendĕre to incend v.: see -ary suffix¹.

A. adj.

a. Consisting in, relating or pertaining to, the malicious setting on fire of buildings or other property.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > setting on fire or alight > incendiary

incendiary1611

incendious1823

fire-setting1833

petrolean1893

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 539/1 An incendiarie outrage at Norwich, where the Citizens set fire on the Priorie Church.

a1845 Hood (title) An Incendiary Song.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. vii. 163 The glare of some incendiary fire.

b. Military. Adapted or used for setting on fire an enemy's buildings, ships, etc. Used esp. of a type of aerial bomb that ignites on impact.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adjective] > type of, generally

steel1340

invasible1489

saultable1570

expugnatory1601

long-handled1611

shaftless1811

incendiary1871

conventional1955

targetable1972

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [adjective] > types of bomb

incendiary1871

heavy1917

dirty1956

smart bomb1970

enhanced radiation1976

1871 Daily News 14 Jan. Should they still be obstinate, a shower of incendiary shells of great size will be poured upon them.

1885 E. S. Farrow Mil. Encycl. I. 666/1 (heading) Incendiary fire-works.—The incendiary preparations are..incendiary-match, and hot-shot.

1885 E. S. Farrow Mil. Encycl. I. 666/2 Incendiary-match is made by boiling slow-match in a saturated solution of niter, drying it, cutting it into pieces, and plunging it into melted fire-stone. It is principally used in loaded shells.

1892 E. Baker Prelim. Tactics ii. 31 The ammunition carried per gun..is: ring shell, 84;..case, 8; incendiary shell, 6.

1911 Aero May 37/1 The following are reckoned..to be the principal offensive uses of the war-aeroplane: (1.) Attacking supply stores and setting them on fire with incendiary bombs.

1915 Lancet 12 June 1249/2 The incendiary bomb may cause a serious outbreak of fire.

1917 H. Woodhouse Textbk. Naval Aeronautics (1918) xix. 120/2 The Zeppelins also dropped incendiary bombs intended to set places on fire.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 307 Incendiary grenade, a form of grenade designed to scatter molten metal upon bursting.

1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 164 Reference is made to incendiary bombs with magnesium alloy case and thermit filling.

1940 Illustr. London News 5 Oct. 435/2 The oil bomb, which may be of various sizes, is filled in some cases with petrol, thus becoming a tremendously powerful incendiary bomb.

1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 69 Though large numbers of incendiary bombs were dropped the damage done by fire was kept within fairly narrow limits.

2. figurative. Having the character of inflaming or exciting the passions, esp. in regard to political matters; tending to stir up strife, violence, or sedition; inflammatory.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [adjective]

seditious1455

factious1533

factiosea1573

tribunitious1600

incendiary1614

tumultuousa1617

tribunitian1637

seditionary1898

fomentary2013

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 22 Zeale; is 1. hote; no incendiary, no praeter-naturall, but a super-naturall heate.

1777 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 145 All incendiary acts and incendiary practices.

1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 152 Ideas are disturbing, incendiary, follies of young men, repudiated by the solid portion of society.

1853 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) vii. 270 To counteract the effect of incendiary publications.

B. n.

a. A person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other property; one who wilfully or criminally causes a conflagration; one who commits arson.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > arson > one guilty of

make-fire1560

firer1576

incendiary1606

conflagrator1641

fire-raiser1678

arsonist1848

arsonite1859

firebug1869

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > incendiarism > an incendiary

make-fire1560

burn-grange1568

firer1576

incendiary1606

cendiary1624

conflagrator1641

fire-raiser1678

firesetter1831

arsonist1848

arsonite1859

petroleuse1871

petroleur1875

petrolist1890

torch1938

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 238 Others called him with open mouth Incendiarie [margin. Or firebrand because he burnt the Capitoll].

1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 26 We would make Bonfires (sir) but that we fear Name of Incendiaries we may hear.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xvi. 220 Fire too frequently involves in the common calamity persons unknown to the incendiary, and not intended to be hurt by him.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. i. 10 These are the incendiaries that burnt Rome, under Nero.

†b. gen. A person or thing that kindles or sets on fire. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > one who

bustuary1607

firer1653

incendiary1655

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 17 Instructions were issued out for the firing of them, and Sir Samuel Argall was appointed to be the incendiary.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 47 The sun, and the central fire. These two great incendiaries, they say, will be let loose upon us at the conflagration.

c. Short for incendiary bomb.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > incendiary

firebomb1685

incendiary1940

Molotov breadbasket1940

1940 Flight 19 Dec. 522/2 The pilot found his objective at once and his incendiaries started four large fires.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 24 You may have tried to put out an incendiary bomb by heaping..sand on it... No amount of sand will smother an incendiary.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 176/1 In 1941 Lambeth Palace Library was heavily bombed. Incendiaries fell in the middle of the seventeenth-century Great Hall which was its centre.

2. figurative.

a. A person who inflames or excites the passions of men, esp. in regard to political matters; one who stirs up civil strife or violence; a mover of dissension or sedition: an inflammatory agitator, a ‘firebrand’.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person

sower1380

kindler?c1450

stirrerc1450

subvertera1500

subverser1514

subvertor?1532

commotioner1549

provocator1559

seditioner1562

seedsman1587

tumulter1589

turmoiler1591

seditionary1607

seditiary1628

incendiary1631

patriot1644

embroiler1668

agitator1681

seditionist1786

agent provocateur1831

disquietist1834

insurrectionist1845

provocateur1855

galley-growler1867

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §93. 356 Campion, and other Seminaries and Incendiaries were sent by the Pope.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 163 He is an hot-headed Incendiary.

1704 J. Blair in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 101 Playing the Incendiary by endeavouring to make differences among friends.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 462 Transforming them..into dangerous political incendiaries.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) III. i. 8 The Jesuits had been the incendiaries of the late insurrection.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. ii. 139 Native officers..had been active in aggravating the irritation caused... The dismissal of the incendiaries..restored tranquillity.

†b. A thing that inflames or excites passion, strife, etc.; an incentive to evil. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [noun] > one who or that which excites

fermentc1420

exciter1617

incendiary1628

electrifier1791

excitor1814

animation1817

shocker1824

hair-raiser1897

heartthrobber1903

heart-stopper1906

sizzler1942

turn-on1969

G-spot1983

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates

prickleOE

pritchOE

alighting1340

brodc1375

bellowsc1386

pricka1387

motivec1390

prompting1402

preparativec1450

stirmentc1460

incentive?a1475

fomenta1500

farda1522

instigation1526

pointing1533

swinge1548

spur1551

whetstone1551

goad1567

promptitude1578

alarm1587

inducement1593

solicitor1594

incitement1596

inflammation1597

instance1597

excitement1604

moving spirit1604

heart-blood1606

inflamer1609

rouser1611

stimulator1614

motioner1616

incensivea1618

incitative1620

incitation1622

whettera1625

impulsivea1628

excitation1628

incendiary1628

dispositive1629

fomentationa1631

switch1630

stirrer1632

irritament1634

provocative1638

impetus1641

driving force1642

driving power1642

engagement1642

firer1653

propellant1654

fomentary1657

impulse1660

urgency1664

impeller1686

fillip1699

shove1724

incitive1736

stimulative1747

bonus1787

stimulus1791

impellent1793

stimulant1794

propulsion1800

instigant1833

propulsive1834

motive power1836

evoker1845

motivity1857

afflatus1865

flip1881

urge1882

agent provocateur1888

will to power1896

a shot in the arm1922

motivator1929

driver1971

co-driver1993

the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] > stirring up or inflaming passion > one who or that which

fan1530

fuel?1594

incendiary1628

incendiator1653

inflammatory1681

inflammativea1711

enkindler1853

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iii. i. ii. 548 Causes, or incendiaries of this rage.

1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 58 Their intemperate drinking..was the incendiary of some quarrels.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ix. 286 We took a booty..which might have been made valuable, if discretion and prudence might have had the management of it; for want of which it proved a troublesome incendiary.

Derivatives

inˈcendiaryship n. the office or personality of an incendiary.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1641 Ld. G. Digby 3rd Speech to Commons 13 Was there a man peaceably affected, studious of the Quiet and Tranquillity of his Countrey? Their Incendiariships hath plagued him.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	incendiary
释义	incendiaryadj.n. Brit. /ɪnˈsɛndɪəri/, /ɪnˈsɛndʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ᵻnˈsɛndiˌɛri/ Forms: Also 1600s en-. Etymology: < Latin incendiārius causing conflagration, setting on fire, < incendium burning, conflagration, < incendĕre to incend v.: see -ary suffix¹. A. adj. 1. a. Consisting in, relating or pertaining to, the malicious setting on fire of buildings or other property. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > setting on fire or alight > incendiary incendiary1611 incendious1823 fire-setting1833 petrolean1893 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 539/1 An incendiarie outrage at Norwich, where the Citizens set fire on the Priorie Church. a1845 Hood (title) An Incendiary Song. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. vii. 163 The glare of some incendiary fire. b. Military. Adapted or used for setting on fire an enemy's buildings, ships, etc. Used esp. of a type of aerial bomb that ignites on impact. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adjective] > type of, generally steel1340 invasible1489 saultable1570 expugnatory1601 long-handled1611 shaftless1811 incendiary1871 conventional1955 targetable1972 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [adjective] > types of bomb incendiary1871 heavy1917 dirty1956 smart bomb1970 enhanced radiation1976 1871 Daily News 14 Jan. Should they still be obstinate, a shower of incendiary shells of great size will be poured upon them. 1885 E. S. Farrow Mil. Encycl. I. 666/1 (heading) Incendiary fire-works.—The incendiary preparations are..incendiary-match, and hot-shot. 1885 E. S. Farrow Mil. Encycl. I. 666/2 Incendiary-match is made by boiling slow-match in a saturated solution of niter, drying it, cutting it into pieces, and plunging it into melted fire-stone. It is principally used in loaded shells. 1892 E. Baker Prelim. Tactics ii. 31 The ammunition carried per gun..is: ring shell, 84;..case, 8; incendiary shell, 6. 1911 Aero May 37/1 The following are reckoned..to be the principal offensive uses of the war-aeroplane: (1.) Attacking supply stores and setting them on fire with incendiary bombs. 1915 Lancet 12 June 1249/2 The incendiary bomb may cause a serious outbreak of fire. 1917 H. Woodhouse Textbk. Naval Aeronautics (1918) xix. 120/2 The Zeppelins also dropped incendiary bombs intended to set places on fire. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 307 Incendiary grenade, a form of grenade designed to scatter molten metal upon bursting. 1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 164 Reference is made to incendiary bombs with magnesium alloy case and thermit filling. 1940 Illustr. London News 5 Oct. 435/2 The oil bomb, which may be of various sizes, is filled in some cases with petrol, thus becoming a tremendously powerful incendiary bomb. 1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 69 Though large numbers of incendiary bombs were dropped the damage done by fire was kept within fairly narrow limits. 2. figurative. Having the character of inflaming or exciting the passions, esp. in regard to political matters; tending to stir up strife, violence, or sedition; inflammatory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [adjective] seditious1455 factious1533 factiosea1573 tribunitious1600 incendiary1614 tumultuousa1617 tribunitian1637 seditionary1898 fomentary2013 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 22 Zeale; is 1. hote; no incendiary, no praeter-naturall, but a super-naturall heate. 1777 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 145 All incendiary acts and incendiary practices. 1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 152 Ideas are disturbing, incendiary, follies of young men, repudiated by the solid portion of society. 1853 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) vii. 270 To counteract the effect of incendiary publications. B. n. 1. a. A person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other property; one who wilfully or criminally causes a conflagration; one who commits arson. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > arson > one guilty of make-fire1560 firer1576 incendiary1606 conflagrator1641 fire-raiser1678 arsonist1848 arsonite1859 firebug1869 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > incendiarism > an incendiary make-fire1560 burn-grange1568 firer1576 incendiary1606 cendiary1624 conflagrator1641 fire-raiser1678 firesetter1831 arsonist1848 arsonite1859 petroleuse1871 petroleur1875 petrolist1890 torch1938 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 238 Others called him with open mouth Incendiarie [margin. Or firebrand because he burnt the Capitoll]. 1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 26 We would make Bonfires (sir) but that we fear Name of Incendiaries we may hear. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xvi. 220 Fire too frequently involves in the common calamity persons unknown to the incendiary, and not intended to be hurt by him. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. i. 10 These are the incendiaries that burnt Rome, under Nero. †b. gen. A person or thing that kindles or sets on fire. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > one who bustuary1607 firer1653 incendiary1655 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 17 Instructions were issued out for the firing of them, and Sir Samuel Argall was appointed to be the incendiary. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 47 The sun, and the central fire. These two great incendiaries, they say, will be let loose upon us at the conflagration. c. Short for incendiary bomb. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > incendiary firebomb1685 incendiary1940 Molotov breadbasket1940 1940 Flight 19 Dec. 522/2 The pilot found his objective at once and his incendiaries started four large fires. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 24 You may have tried to put out an incendiary bomb by heaping..sand on it... No amount of sand will smother an incendiary. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 176/1 In 1941 Lambeth Palace Library was heavily bombed. Incendiaries fell in the middle of the seventeenth-century Great Hall which was its centre. 2. figurative. a. A person who inflames or excites the passions of men, esp. in regard to political matters; one who stirs up civil strife or violence; a mover of dissension or sedition: an inflammatory agitator, a ‘firebrand’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person sower1380 kindler?c1450 stirrerc1450 subvertera1500 subverser1514 subvertor?1532 commotioner1549 provocator1559 seditioner1562 seedsman1587 tumulter1589 turmoiler1591 seditionary1607 seditiary1628 incendiary1631 patriot1644 embroiler1668 agitator1681 seditionist1786 agent provocateur1831 disquietist1834 insurrectionist1845 provocateur1855 galley-growler1867 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §93. 356 Campion, and other Seminaries and Incendiaries were sent by the Pope. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 163 He is an hot-headed Incendiary. 1704 J. Blair in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 101 Playing the Incendiary by endeavouring to make differences among friends. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 462 Transforming them..into dangerous political incendiaries. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) III. i. 8 The Jesuits had been the incendiaries of the late insurrection. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. ii. 139 Native officers..had been active in aggravating the irritation caused... The dismissal of the incendiaries..restored tranquillity. †b. A thing that inflames or excites passion, strife, etc.; an incentive to evil. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [noun] > one who or that which excites fermentc1420 exciter1617 incendiary1628 electrifier1791 excitor1814 animation1817 shocker1824 hair-raiser1897 heartthrobber1903 heart-stopper1906 sizzler1942 turn-on1969 G-spot1983 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates prickleOE pritchOE alighting1340 brodc1375 bellowsc1386 pricka1387 motivec1390 prompting1402 preparativec1450 stirmentc1460 incentive?a1475 fomenta1500 farda1522 instigation1526 pointing1533 swinge1548 spur1551 whetstone1551 goad1567 promptitude1578 alarm1587 inducement1593 solicitor1594 incitement1596 inflammation1597 instance1597 excitement1604 moving spirit1604 heart-blood1606 inflamer1609 rouser1611 stimulator1614 motioner1616 incensivea1618 incitative1620 incitation1622 whettera1625 impulsivea1628 excitation1628 incendiary1628 dispositive1629 fomentationa1631 switch1630 stirrer1632 irritament1634 provocative1638 impetus1641 driving force1642 driving power1642 engagement1642 firer1653 propellant1654 fomentary1657 impulse1660 urgency1664 impeller1686 fillip1699 shove1724 incitive1736 stimulative1747 bonus1787 stimulus1791 impellent1793 stimulant1794 propulsion1800 instigant1833 propulsive1834 motive power1836 evoker1845 motivity1857 afflatus1865 flip1881 urge1882 agent provocateur1888 will to power1896 a shot in the arm1922 motivator1929 driver1971 co-driver1993 the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] > stirring up or inflaming passion > one who or that which fan1530 fuel?1594 incendiary1628 incendiator1653 inflammatory1681 inflammativea1711 enkindler1853 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iii. i. ii. 548 Causes, or incendiaries of this rage. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 58 Their intemperate drinking..was the incendiary of some quarrels. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ix. 286 We took a booty..which might have been made valuable, if discretion and prudence might have had the management of it; for want of which it proved a troublesome incendiary. Derivatives inˈcendiaryship n. the office or personality of an incendiary.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1641 Ld. G. Digby 3rd Speech to Commons 13 Was there a man peaceably affected, studious of the Quiet and Tranquillity of his Countrey? Their Incendiariships hath plagued him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1606
随便看	to lay one's eyes together to lay one's finger on to lay one's finger on the pulse to lay one's fingers on the pulse to lay one's hand to the plough to lay one's head to lay one's heels in one's neck to lay one's leg over to lay one's legs aliry to lay one's life, head, to wed to lay one's might to lay one's portion with to lay one's scene to lay one'the finger on to lay open to lay or set aside to lay our heads together to lay out to lay over to lay past to lay pipe to lay pipes to lay posts to lay praise, one's blessing, etc upon to lay prize, store upon