Refer vs Incite - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between refer and incite

is that refer is to direct the attention of while incite is .

(referr)

To direct the attention of.

The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.

To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

He referred the matter to the principal.

to refer a patient to a psychiatrist

To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.

# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence

* delegate * direct

* refer to * refer someone to

(incit)

To rouse, stir up or excite.

The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.

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