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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pyromanic en · ADJ

Etymology

From pyromania + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to or exhibiting pyromania.
    • Several pyromanic boys before coming to the Orthogenic School set fires because they so much enjoyed watching the pumps throw streams of water at burning buildings. 1954, Bruno Bettelheim, Symbolic wounds: puberty rites and the envious male, page 186: