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Inflammatory

adjective

Characterized or caused by inflammation. "An inflammatory response"

Arousing to action or rebellion. Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious.

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"Inflammatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... the chest be of an inflammatory nature, the cold towels must be applied over the place where it is felt, instead of ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... been long ill of an inflammatory and bilious disorder, I had been able to keep the deck; but this evening the symptoms became so much more threatening that I could keep up no longer, and I was for some time afterwards confined to my bed. The master was dying of the wounds he received ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... resident English missionaries authorized the banishment of these priests is a fact undenied by themselves. I was also repeatedly informed that by their inflammatory harangues they instigated the riots which preceded the sailing of the schooner. At all events, it is certain that their unbounded influence with the natives would easily have enabled them to prevent everything that took place on this occasion, ...

— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville

... Prospector he had little difficulty. Inflammatory rheumatism, with a complication of pneumonia; in itself not necessarily fatal, or even dangerous, but with a man of the Old Prospector's age and habits of life this complication might any moment become serious. He left some medicine, ordered nourishing food, perfect rest and ...

— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... supporter. He became a Socialist because his friend Dick was one; when that was no longer a reason, he numbered himself among the followers of Comrade Roodhouse—first as a sort of angry protest, against Mutimer's private treachery, then again because he had got into the habit of listening to inflammatory discourses every Sunday night, and on the whole found it a pleasant way of passing the evening. He enjoyed the oratory of Messrs. Cowes and Cullen; he liked to shout 'Hear, hear!' and to stamp when there was general applause; ...

— Demos • George Gissing

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