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Instigate   /ˈɪnstəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Instigate

verb
(past & past part. instigated; pres. part. instigating)
1.
Provoke or stir up.  Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up.  "Set off great unrest among the people"
2.
Serve as the inciting cause of.  Synonyms: inspire, prompt.






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"Instigate" Quotes from Famous Books



... York, was present at Edgehill and accompanied him to Oxford. On the 1st of February 1643 he was named with Lord Herbert of Raglan for removal from the court and public office for ever, and in the propositions of November 1644 was one of those excepted from pardon. In January he had endeavoured to instigate a breach of the Independents with the Scots. Bristol, however, was not in favour of continuing the war, and withdrew to Sherborne, removing in the spring of 1644 to Exeter, and after the surrender of the city retiring abroad on the 11th of July ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

... temptation was great: he had been waiting for his sister's death; and he could not bring himself to bear disappointment. I do not think he could do it with his own hand, for he is a coward; but I can quite believe that he could instigate ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... Landing, a prisoner was put in his charge for safe keeping. Ross Landing is Chattanooga now, and John Ross lived there, and was one of the chiefs of the Cherokees. The prisoner was his guest, and his name was John Howard Payne. He was suspected of trying to instigate the Cherokees to revolt and fight, and not leave their beautiful forest homes on the Tennessee and Coosa and Oostanaula and the Etowah and Connasauga rivers. He brought Payne back as far as New Echota, or New Town, as it was called, an Indian settlement on the Coosawattee, ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly



Words linked to "Instigate" :   instigant, instigator, instigative, instigation, stimulate, raise, have, cause, move, get, provoke, act, make, induce



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