accendo, accendere, accendi, accensus - to kindle, set on fire

Aeneid 1.29-31, his accensa super iactatos aequore toto/Troas,.../arcebat longe Latio (in addition, inflamed by these things, she was keeping the Trojans far away from Latium, as they were being thrown over the whole sea). cf. candidus, white, clear, bright. Eng. incendiary, inflammatory, something used for setting property on fire. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Heroism, 18.Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind and with what sweetness of temper he can, and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.