单词 | firesetter |
释义 | firesettern. A person who starts a fire; esp. one who sets fires as a malicious or criminal act; an arsonist. Cf. fire-setting n. 2, fire-setting adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > incendiarism > an incendiary make-fire1560 burn-grange1568 firer1576 incendiary1606 cendiary1624 conflagrator1641 fire-raiser1678 firesetter1831 arsonist1848 arsonite1859 petroleuse1871 petroleur1875 petrolist1890 torch1938 1831 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Feb. 472 The French aristocrats have retaliated, by asserting that the fire-setters in that country are paid by the English! 1898 F. V. Coville Forest Growth & Sheep Grazing 37 The malicious fire setter usually so covers up his tracks that it is difficult to secure evidence sufficient to convict. 1912 E. F. Croker Fire Prevention (1917) 306 In addition to pyromania and greed, there are other motives which prompt fire setters. 1967 H. H. Biswell in S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup & J. J. Parsons Nat. Resources 83 The fire setters work in both directions around the area, to join forces about 2:00 p.m. 1985 W. G. Bradshaw & T. G. Huff Arsonists in Calif. & N.Y. 4/1 Arsonists who started incendiarism younger were more likely to be repeat firesetters. 2013 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 31 Aug. 31 Experts from the Australian Centre for Arson Research and Treatment at Bond University have been studying fire-setters and making headway with a program that helps people overcome their urges. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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