incite
See also: incité
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Etymology edit
Middle French inciter, from Latin incitare (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citare (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of ciere (“to rouse, excite, call”).
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incite (third-person singular simple present incites, present participle inciting, simple past and past participle incited)
- (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
- incite people to violence
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to rouse, stir up or excite
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- “incite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “incite”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “incite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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