Act as a catalyst

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.