Dictionary entry

Combustible

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐bus″ti‐ble (?), a. [Cf. F. combustible.] 1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.

South.

2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.

Arnold was a combustible character.

W. Irving.