arsonicalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

arson +‎ -ical

形容詞

arsonical (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).
   • 1909, H. G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 8, p. 214,^[1]

     He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.

   • 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393,^[2]

     In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.

アナグラム

• Carolinas, rascalion