incendious

incendious

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

incendious (comparative more incendious, superlative most incendious) (obsolete)

  1. Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory[1].
    • 1824, John Dunn Hunter, Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America:
      the pillage of their property, and the incendious destruction of their dwellings
  2. Fiery; flaming.
    • quoted in 1974, David McGregor Rogers, English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640 (page 197)
      […] free from the incendious heats, and burning of Hell.
  • incendiously

References

  1. ^ “incendious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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