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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To provoke and urge on: troublemakers who incite riots; inciting workers to strike. See Synonyms at provoke.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To move to action; stir up; instigate; spur on.
  2. Synonyms Impel, Induce, etc. (see actuate), stimulate, urge on, rouse, fire, provoke, excite, encourage, animate, set on, drive, persuade. See list under impel.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To rouse, stir up or excite.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. provoke or stir up
  2. v. urge on; cause to act
  3. v. give an incentive for action

Etymologies

  1. Middle English encyten, from Old French enciter, from Latin incitāre, to urge forward : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + citāre, to stimulate, frequentative of ciēre, to put in motion; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots.

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