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Instigate vs Instate - What's the difference?

instigate | instate |

As verbs the difference between instigate and instate

is that instigate is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite while instate is to install (someone) in office; to establish.

instigate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(instigat)
  • To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.
    • He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. -Bp. Warburton.

    Usage notes

    Commonly used with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.

    Synonyms

    * (to goad or urge forward): animate, encourage, impel, incite, provoke, spur, stimulate, tempt, urge

    Antonyms

    * (to goad or urge forward): halt, prevent, stop

    Derived terms

    * instigation * instigator

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    instate

    English

    Verb

    (instat)
  • To install (someone) in office; to establish.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 175:
  • *:Except that in the rest of society there was sex aplenty, with the hedonism of “the Sixties” almost officially instated as dogma, and the slow, surreptitious growth of this consensus to the then unguessed-at status of “correctness.”

    • Derived terms

    * instatement

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