incite
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See also: incité
English
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]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
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to rouse, stir up or excite
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Further reading
[edit]- “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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Verb
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Portuguese
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Spanish
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