a. and sb. Obs. [ad. L. bustuārius pertaining to burning or the funeral-pyre.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to the funeral pile; funereal. rare.
1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. lii. Ashes, into which the fuel of the funeral and bustuary fire hath been converted.
B. sb. An incendiary.
1607. J. King, Serm. (Nov.), 25. The dislocall broode of Ignatius Loiola, the notorious Incendiaries, Bustuaries, of christian states.
c. 1633. T. Adams, Wks. (1862), II. 32 (D.). They are the firebrands and bustuaries of kingdoms. Ibid., 157 (D.). Satan … is the great bustuary himself.
