pyromanian.

1840 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. July 165 Pyromania has chiefly been observed among young females about the age of puberty.

1845 E. K. Hunt tr. E. Esquirol Mental Maladies 362 The young women of that country [sc. Germany] are, during the early period of adolescence, more subject to pyromania than young men.

1867 H. Maudsley Physiol. & Pathol. of Mind 273 Instances of..homicidal monomania, kleptomania, pyromania, and suicidal monomania.

1937 Times 7 Oct. 11/2 Mr. A. Lawson-Walton..said that there was no evidence of spite.., and it seemed that the accused had a kind of pyromania and delighted in making fires.

1976 A. MacLean Golden Gate x. 211 Sheer pyromania, that's what it is.

1997 N. Dodman Cat who cried for Help 195 The list of these putative obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders..includes conditions such as pyromania, compulsive gambling, and trichotillomania.

1914 Jrnl. Amer. Instit. Criminal Law & Criminology Nov. 573 An individual who starts voluntary conflagrations whenever intoxicated, without ever having shown in a state of sobriety any pyromanic tendencies.

1926 J. I. Suttie tr. S. Ferenczi Further Contrib. Psycho-anal. xxxi. 258 There were quite a number [of cases] in which incendiaries set fire to their beds, as though to indicate the..enuristic primitive source of their pyromanic character trait.

1988 L. Blair Ring of Fire iii. 84 This left just three hours before darkness in which to follow and film the culminating procession to the burial-cliffs, and to return..to cover whatever pyromanic tendencies we might have managed to rekindle there.

1999 Geogr. Rev. 89 344 Incidents of arson by unemployed firefighters who seek work, and the pyromanic activities of demented individuals.