Instigator
['ɪnstɪɡetɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who initiates a course of action.
(noun.) someone who deliberately foments trouble; 'she was the instigator of their quarrel'.
Editor: Rosalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who instigates or incites.
Editor: Oswald
Examples
- At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She was the instigator. Jane Austen. Emma.
Editor: Robert