Incite vs Ensue - What's the difference?
incite | ensue |
To rouse, stir up or excite.
(obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
* Golding
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:
*:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
As verbs the difference between incite and ensue
is that incite is to rouse, stir up or excite while ensue is to follow (a leader, inclination etc.).incite
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Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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* ----ensue
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Verb
(ensu)- to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].
- To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
- Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .