Crossword clues for incited
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: incite)
Usage examples of "incited".
With difficulty, Boidi reached the nubians, took his position behind them, and incited them to move, in one body, towards the Huns.
As if incited by that sound of imminent danger, Kohrin Soulez leaped forward, slashing hard.
His thoughts were whirling now, as Domo's confirmation of some kind of an uprising within Bregan D'aerthe incited a plethora of questions.
In fact, the notion that Agrathan, a major voice on the Council of Sparkling Stones, was apparently holding mixed feelings concerning Mithral Hall incited more than a little trepidation in the sceptrana.
The prospect of viewing great dwarven halls, something neither of the brothers had done since their youngest years, far more than a century before, incited great joy in Ivan.
He, when Marcus Messala and Marcus Piso were consuls, incited by lust of sovereignty, formed a conspiracy among the nobility, and persuaded the people to go forth from their territories with all their possessions, [saying] that it would be very easy, since they excelled all in valor, to acquire the supremacy of the whole of Gaul.
Pompey himself, incited by Caesar's enemies, because he was unwilling that any person should bear an equal degree of dignity, had wholly alienated himself from Caesar's friendship, and procured a reconciliation with their common enemies.
The landowners, priests and high priests trembled before them and called down the anathema: they were the ones who incited insurrections and brought out the Roman troops, with the result that massacres broke forth at regular intervals and rivers of Jewish blood were spilled.
He incited her with teeth and tongue, movements and words that made her arch wildly against him.
He recognised that his State possessed more courage than strength, he therefore incited other nations to declare war openly and formally, whilst he kept for his own people an opening for treachery under the mask of an alliance.
The honour thus paid to courage incited even women to do glorious things for the State.
They also demanded an amnesty for those who had incited the soldiers or the plebs to recover their liberties by a secession.
Besprinkled with the dead man's blood, and surrounded by a troop of young patricians, he returned to the Dictator and: reported that Maelius after being summoned to appear before him had driven away his officer and incited the populace to riot, and had now met with the punishment he deserved.
I was indeed willing humbly to submit if I must but there was something that incited and disturbed me, as though submission was the very greatest sin.
The soldiers, first with the flat of their swords, then with the tips, incited the poor animals, who in their fear loosed volleys of dung.