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arsonical

arsonical adjective: of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).

Adjective

arsonical (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).
    • 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...1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The History of Mr Polly, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 214
    • In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393

Origin of arsonical

From arson + -ical.

Questions about arsonical

What does arsonical mean?
Arsonical means of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).
What part of speech is arsonical?
Arsonical is an adjective.

Words near arsonical in the dictionary

  1. arsonates
  2. arsoned
  3. arsonic
  4. arsonic acid
  5. arsonic acids
  6. arsonical
  7. arsoning
  8. arsonism
  9. arsonist
  10. arsonists
  11. arsonite

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