arsonical

English

From arson +‎ -ical.

arsonical (not comparable)

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.