incite

From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”).

• enPR: ĭn.sīt', IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt

incite (third-person singular simple present incites, present participle inciting, simple past and past participle incited)

1. (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

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   The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.

   incite people to violence

   • 2018 October 15, Paul Mozur, “A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.

   • 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Who and what exactly incited Amir?

   • 2020 September 1, Peter Baker, “Trump has a long history of language that incites and demonizes.”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.

• “incite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “incite”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “incite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• intice

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incite

1. inflection of inciter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

incite

1. inflection of incitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

incite

1. inflection of incitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative