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Definition of Incendiaries
1. incendiary [n] - See also: incendiary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incendiaries
Literary usage of Incendiaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"incendiaries. f FANCY to yourself a man sets the city on fire at Cripple- gate,
and that fire continues by ... So 'tis with the incendiaries of the state. ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... and promising a reward to the discoverers of such incendiaries as have been
the abettors thereof; and a motion being made to insert the word republican ..."
3. Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq. Or His Sense of by John Selden (1786)
"incendiaries. I. FANCY to yourself a man sets the city on fire at ... So it is
with the incendiaries of the state : they that first set it on fire, ..."