Crossword clues for instigated
instigated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instigate \In"sti*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Instigating.] [L. instigatus, p. p. of instigare to instigate; pref. in- in + a root akin to G. stechen to prick, E. stick. See Stick.] To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.
He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very
extent of their malignity.
--Bp.
Warburton.
Syn: To stimulate; urge; spur; provoke; tempt; incite; impel; encourage; animate.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: instigate)
Usage examples of "instigated".
He had privately instigated a check on the extra personnel that Barchenka was hiring to serve at the Inauguration ceremony.
Maybe evening lectures could be instigated, just to disseminate vital information.
Especially T’kul, who undoubtedly had instigated the senseless scheme.
He'd obtained videotapes of the news coverage of both of the terrorist incidents he'd instigated and wanted to study them.
But then this damned Rainbow team had appeared, and handled three major incidents-and what asshole had instigated the third one?
We have reason to believe he has instigated operations in which people were killed, including the attack on my people here in Hereford.
We have a former-presumably former-KGB officer who instigated the Hereford attack.
John had already made the conceptual leap of forgetting that Popov had instigated an attack on his wife and daughter.
Jacopo, more mindful of the danger he had incurred than of the lenity exercised toward him, on his arrival in Florence secretly instigated the citizens to hostilities.
Niccolo Fortebraccio was instigated by the ancient enmity which Braccio had always entertained against the church.
To give as little color as possible for complaint, and to lull suspicion, particularly, because in consequence of his treaty with the count, the latter could not attack Romagna, he ordered Niccolo Piccinino, as if instigated by his own ambition to do so.
Upon examination of these accounts the affairs were found to be in great disorder, and Diotisalvi, instigated rather by his own ambition than by attachment to Piero or gratitude to Cosmo, thought he might without difficulty deprive him of both the reputation and the splendor which his father had left him as his inheritance.
He was on Lalonde, therefore Lalonde’s uprising problem was instigated by him.
She wasn’t quite sure if it was her presence or their discovery which instigated his jitters.
Dome One’s mayor, in conjunction with the other fourteen mayors of the arcology, instigated an official day of mourning, and opened a bereavement fund.