incite

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”).

• 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.

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

   incite people to violence

• “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.

• 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