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instigate | uninstigated |

As a verb instigate

is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.

As an adjective uninstigated is

not instigated.

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

    uninstigated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not instigated.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 10, author=, title=This Time, a True Strategy for Iraq? (8 Letters), work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=After four years of pointless, fruitless, uninstigated combat, if President Bush indeed escalates the “sacrifice” of other parents’ beloved children — against all reason, against the will of the electorate and without any personal sacrifice to call his own — it would not be vanity. }}