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incite

verb
/ɪnˈsaɪt/US/ɪnsajʈ/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from incitō — “to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”
  2. derived from inciter

Definitions

  1. To call into action.

    • The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
    • incite people to violence
    • Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.

  2. To entreat an act.

  3. To instigate a specific incident.

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Derived

incitable, incitee, inciteful, inciter, incitor, incitingly, incitive, incitory, reincite, unincited

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at incite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at incite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at incite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA