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Verb
/inˈsīt/,
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incited, past participle; incites, 3rd person singular present; inciting, present participle; incited, past tense;
  1. Encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior)
    • - the offense of inciting racial hatred
  2. Urge or persuade (someone) to act in a violent or unlawful way
    • - he incited loyal subjects to rebellion

  1. motivate: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
  2. provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"
  3. prod: urge on; cause to act; "The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window"
  4. (incitement) incitation: an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; "the incitement of mutiny"
  5. (incitement) provocation: needed encouragement; "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"
  6. (incitement) exhortation: the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
  7. The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is operated by the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities and awards sizeable allocations (typically millions of processor hours per project) on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers ...
  8. (Incitement) In English criminal law, incitement was an anticipatory common law offence and was the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime.
  9. (Incitement (Gorillaz)) Gorillaz is a musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of alternative rock band Blur and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. ...
  10. (Inciting) Literally, solicitation means: 'urgently asking'. It is the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal.
  11. To rouse, stir up or excite
  12. (incitement) A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion
  13. (Incitement) To spur to action or instigate into activity; implies responsibility for initiating another’s actions.
  14. To arouse; urge; provoke; encourage; spur on; goad; stir up; instigate; set in motion; as in to incite a riot. Also, generally, in CRIMINAL LAW to instigate, persuade, or move another to commit a crime; in this sense nearly synonymous with abet.
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