What is the difference between incite and instigate?
incite | instigate |
To rouse, stir up or excite.
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.
Instigate is a synonym of incite.
As verbs the difference between incite and instigate
is that incite is to rouse, stir up or excite while instigate is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.incite
English
Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(instigat)- He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. -Bp. Warburton.