Crossword clues for incitement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incitement \In*cite"ment\, n. [Cf. F. incitement.]
The act of inciting.
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That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse.
--Burke.From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage.
--Pope.Syn: Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse; encouragement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from incite + -ment.
Wiktionary
alt. A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion. n. A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.
WordNet
n. an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; "the incitement of mutiny" [syn: incitation]
needed encouragement; "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation" [syn: provocation]
something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action [syn: incitation, provocation]
the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion [syn: exhortation]
Wikipedia
Incitement was an offence under the common law of England and Wales. It was an inchoate offence. It consisted of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime.
It was abolished in England and Wales on 1 October 2008 when Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 came into force, replacing it with three new statutory offences of encouraging or assisting crime. The common law is now only relevant to offences committed before that date.
Incitement remains an offence in New Zealand.
Usage examples of "incitement".
These lines and the succeeding stanza are addressed to Pandarus, who had interposed some words of incitement to Cressida.
Old-fashioned human react to the most inconvenient incitement cues of allincessant, perennial, omnipresent.
Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Ass aulting an Officer of the Law, Felony DUI, Resisting Arrest, Attempted Incitement of a Riot, Possession of a Narcotic with Intent to Distribute, Felony Mayhem.
I stayed in Jail t hat night and I was arraigned the next morning on charges of Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assaulting an Officer of the Law, Felony DUI, Disturbing the Peace, Res isting Arrest, Driving Without a License, Driving Without Insurance, Attempted Incitement of a Riot, Possession of a Narcotic with Intent to Distribute and Felony Mayhem.
Maisie found in this exchange of asperities a fresh incitement to the unformulated fatalism in which her sense of her own career had long since taken refuge.
Amongst them were high treason and furthering the aims of international communism, conspiracy to overthrow the government by violent revolution, incitement to public violenceand these, if proven, led directly to the gallows tree.
So that those victories they boast were not the substantial joys of the happy, but the empty comforts of wretched men, and seductive incitements to turbulent men to concoct disasters upon disasters.
And though from this corruption of the flesh there arise certain incitements to vice, and indeed vicious desires, yet we must not attribute to the flesh all the vices of a wicked life, in case we thereby clear the devil of all these, for he has no flesh.
Likewise, adding hereunto her great appearance of love to me, her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God, her capablenesse of understanding, her aptness and willingness to receive anie good impression, and also the spirituall, besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto.
Between the uniform and the scent of heavily musked perfume that hit him like a sledgehammer as he entered the room, the staff sergeant was an incitement to riot.
And to men formed for such an enterprise it must be a great incitement to know that their names will be recorded with glory in history with those of Vanwert, Paulding & Williams.