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Inciter

Inciter \In*cit"er\, n. One who, or that which, incites.

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inciter

n. One who incites.

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inciter

n. someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel" [syn: instigator, provoker, instigant, firebrand]

Usage examples of "inciter".

They exist essentially for the purpose of the Universe, just as the gall exists for the purposes of the body as a whole not less than for its own immediate function: it is to be the inciter of the animal spirits but without allowing the entire organism and its own especial region to run riot.

For our demagogues are legislators and legal draftsmen, more subtle, more vindictive, more dangerous by far than simple inciters of riots!

Miss Netherton told the Meltons that they had been included in the evictions on good authority: they had been inciters in what had happened, together with the innkeeper and his wife.