01 a. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
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1.
Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
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2.
Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
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3.
Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.(Med.)
Phrases & compounds
Inflammatory fever —
a variety of fever due to inflammation.