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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incite
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incite hatred (=deliberately encourage people to hate each other)
▪ He faces criminal charges for inciting racial hatred.
incite/provoke violence (=do or say something that makes people become violent)
▪ The opposition leader was accused of inciting violence against the president.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hatred
▪ It introduced a code of conduct for political parties, banning the use of language likely to incite violence or hatred.
▪ Religious fanatics cooled down temporarily, the better to incite hatred another day.
▪ To date, there have been no prosecutions for this version of the offence of inciting to racial hatred.
▪ Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred.
▪ Quite rightly there is legislation to stop material that incites race hatred.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Four men were arrested for inciting the riot.
▪ Holland denied that he was inciting a riot.
▪ She was charged with inciting the crowd to violence.
▪ Tribal leaders are accused of inciting their followers to attack rival tribes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And both events have further encouraged and incited Arab rejectionists such as Hamas.
▪ Both are accused of inciting and participating in the massacre of hundreds of Tutsis in Kibungo in 1994.
▪ For sure she creates disruption, signifies abnormality, and incites lewdness in others.
▪ His approach has incited even more intense debate among Democrats.
▪ Powerful traditions call for its refusal; but nationalist pride may incite people to accept what they would instinctively reject.
▪ Republicans have complained that Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to incite seniors groups and others to oppose the constitutional amendment.
▪ Self-defacement, inciting anti-Soviet attitudes, it's all in the penal code.
▪ The mutiny was not Communist-inspired, but the spirit of rebellion was exploited to incite peasant risings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incite

Incite \In*cite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inciting.] [L. incitare; pref. in- in + citare to rouse, stir up: cf. F. inciter. See Cite.] To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans.
--Bacon.

No blown ambition doth our arms incite.
--Shak.

Syn: Excite; stimulate; instigate; spur; goad; arouse; move; urge; rouse; provoke; encourage; prompt; animate. See Excite.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incite

mid-15c., from Middle French enciter (14c.), from Latin incitare "to put into rapid motion," figuratively "rouse, urge, encourage, stimulate," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + citare "move, excite" (see cite). Related: Incited; inciting.

Wiktionary
incite

vb. To rouse, stir up or excite.

WordNet
incite
  1. v. give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt]

  2. provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" [syn: instigate, set off, stir up]

  3. urge on; cause to act; "They other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" [syn: prod, egg on]

Wikipedia
Incite

Incite is an American groove metal band from Phoenix, Arizona formed in 2004. The band currently consists of Richie Cavalera (vocals), Christopher EL (bass guitar) and Lennon Lopez (drums). Frontman Richie Cavalera is best known as the stepson of former Sepultura and Nailbomb, and current Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy frontman Max Cavalera.

Incite have released two EPs, Murder (2006) and Divided We Fail (2007). They have released three full length albums, The Slaughter (2009), the Logan Mader produced All Out War (2012), and Up in Hell (2014), with their next album, Oppression (2016) to be released soon. The band are currently signed to minus HEAD Records.

Usage examples of "incite".

Possibly she reflected, with a shudder, as she laid the relic on the altar of the oratory of the palazzo Giustiniani, that the remembrance of the constant dangers of Santa Beata had incited the Lady Marina thus to peril her life.

I waited more than six months--until the creatures she spawned began inciting others to one of the bloodiest revolutions known to mankind.

However, I am told that Gary Fussfeld was forever inciting peevish squabbles over the menu for supper socials, as he abhorred ham biscuits, hog jowls, chitlins, pork cracklings and other such traditional SoPrim Southern delicacies.

God chooses to place them in positions in which they can rob, and torment, and dishonor us, and so incite us to labor more zealously for the Christianization of our country.

Or there were disaffected brothers, who had left their convents and were roaming through the land inciting to rebellion, to whom it was needful to teach the value of quiet, however summary the process.

At Lyon, and at Mouvans in Dauphine, a body of Reformers, under command of the most enterprising prince of the house of Bourbon had endeavored to incite the populace to rise.

We shall hereafter see that solutions of these substances, when placed on the discs of leaves, do not incite inflection.

But the worst misstatement in this editorial intended to incite prejudice against any inquiry in the State of New York was that which referred to the effect of the English law governing the regulation of vivisection.

He says, further, that Dongan supplies them with arms and ammunition, incites them to attack the colony, and urges them to deliver Lamberville, the priest at Onondaga, into his hands.

Drawing him to her, she leaned back to the pillows and plied her legs around his hips, her motions inciting him.

James adhered to the treaty, because they feared that if they let go of the hawser, a word from Tokio would incite India to revolt.

Snake women urged a withdrawal from Walpi, and, to incite the men to action, carried their mealing-stones and cooking vessels to the summit of the mesa, where they desired the men to build new houses, less accessible to the domineering priests.

German author decided to play out his antireligion agenda by inciting hatred between Jews and Catholics.

The Chints tribe have incited to profanity long enough, and shall make the night hideous no more.

Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites.