[
enh-so(n)-DEE] (n. m.) When someone writes an
incendiary report it does not means they're going to use the paper and set something on fire with it, although, if they followed the word to the letter, that's exactly what they're letting on. The word actually comes from the Latin
incendiarius which means
to set on fire. The French, in their inflexibility with language, stuck with the Latin and still use the word
incendie to mean
a fire (as opposed to just the element of
fire.)
