incendious

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adjective

Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.

OriginLatin incendiosus →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectiveincendious (comparative more incendious, superlative most incendious)

comparative more incendious · superlative most incendious

  1. obsoletePromoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.

    the pillage of their property, and the incendious destruction of their dwellings

    1824, John Dunn Hunter, Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America
  2. obsoleteFiery; flaming.

    […] free from the incendious heats, and burning of Hell.

    quoted in 1974, David McGregor Rogers, English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640 (page 197)

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
incessive

Origin

  1. Latinincendiosus“burning, hot”
  2. Englishincendious

From Latin incendiosus (“burning, hot”). Compare incendiary.

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APA

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Chicago

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