What is "instigates"

Usage examples of "instigates".

I’ll hazard a guess that the psi function even instigates mutations, some of the deadlier types are just too one-sided to have come about naturally in a brief three hundred years.

I'll hazard a guess that the psi function even instigates mutations, some of the deadlier types are just too one‑sided to have come about naturally in a brief three hundred years.

He employs no other means and, adapting the means to the end and the end to the means, manages the important days and instigates the decisive measures of the Revolution: the 10th of August,[67] the 2nd of September, the 31st of May, the 2nd of June.

A less complete way is the simultaneous coexistence of two or more different groups of aims, of which one practically holds the right of way and instigates activity, whilst the others are only pious wishes, and never practically come to anything.