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Inflammatory adj.

Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.

(Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.

Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy.

Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.

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Etymology of 'Inflammatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... by the appearance of Anabaptism, which had spread from Muenster into Holland and Gelder. Melchior Hoffmann, the leader of this movement, claimed to found the kingdom of heaven by the sword. He incensed the poor people by inflammatory speeches in which he invited them to install the new regime of brotherhood on the ruins of the old world. Their triumph would be the "day of vengeance." His success among the sailors and the agricultural labourers of the North, who endured great sufferings under the new ...

— Belgium - From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day • Emile Cammaerts

... of the noble patriot, soon "put out his wings," and soared, ultimately, to a pinnacle of honor and renown attained by few among men. In the winter of 1793 and 1794, the public mind had become highly excited from the inflammatory appeals in behalf of France, by Citizen Genet, the French Minister to the United States. A large portion of the anti-Federal party took sides with Mr. Genet, against the neutral position of our Government, ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

... Inflammations' will prove a welcome addition to the literature dealing with the treatment of visceral inflammations. His experience is very wide, and the success which has followed the various methods advocated for the relief of dilatation of the heart, pericarditis, and other local inflammatory processes proves the correctness of the principles upon which his treatment is based.... We warmly commend the perusal of this volume, not only to practitioners, but to medical ...

— Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) • Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster

... genuine hereditary consumption of New-England is rare, and families and individuals predisposed to that disease might often be preserved by migration to this Valley. Acute inflammation of the brain, and inflammatory rheumatism are ...

— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

... Belleisle's inflammatory circuitings and extensive travellings, for he had many first and last in this matter, shall be left to the fancy of the reader. May 18th, he made formal Treaty with Karl Albert: Treaty of Nymphenburg, "Karl Albert to be ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

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