Incited
[in'saitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Incite
Inputed by Errol
Examples
- Fixation upon the immediate has made a rich country poor in leisure, has in a land meant for liberal living incited an insane struggle for existence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The demand for army shoes fell off, and the system was abandoned; but it had incited invention in the direction of machine-made shoes and the day of exclusive hand labour was doomed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Still as I narrated, instead of checking, he incited me to proceed he spurred me by the gesture, the smile, the half-word. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Danton incited the crowd against the prisoners, Marat saw the danger of a massacre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was said to be a tiresome false prophet, who had incited Yemen, the rich province of Southern Arabia, to rebel against the King of Kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Darius was first incited to attack the Greeks in Europe by a homesick Greek physician at his court, who wanted at any cost to be back in Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But both Mr. Horrabin, who has drawn these maps, and I, who have incited him to do so, have preferred to err on the timid side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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