arsonical

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English

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Etymology

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From arson +‎ -ical.

Adjective

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arsonical (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).
    • 1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The History of Mr Polly[1], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 214:
      He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.
    • 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393,[2]
      In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.

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