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sən noun
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
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| criminal law the act of intentionally or recklessly setting fire to another's property or to one's own property for some improper reason | |
| [C17: from Old French, from Medieval Latin ārsiō, from Latin ārdēre to burn; see | |
| 'arsonist | |
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Word Origin & History
arson
1670s, from Anglo-Fr. arsoun (1275), from O.Fr. arsion, from L.L. arsionem (nom. arsio) "a burning," from L. arsus pp. of ardere "to burn," from PIE base *as- "to burn, glow" (see ardent). The O.E. term was bærnet, lit. "burning;" and Coke has indictment of burning
(1640). Arsonist is from 1864.
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