0 past simple and past participle of incite
1 to encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant or violent:
[ + to infinitive ] She was expelled for inciting her classmates to rebel against their teachers.
She incited racial hatred by distributing anti-Semitic leaflets.
They have refunded in certain cases, and in others they have incited the banks to deduct the taxation.
For example, we now know that undercover police investigators were among the demonstrators and probably also incited them to violence.
Accyoli noted that it was a mistake to think that the organisation incited workers' complaints and social agitation.
Warmoth said the constitutional amendment allowing him to run for consecutive terms incited the revolt, and he is probably correct.
This area incited less controversy after the group developed some concrete examples of the relevance of semiotics concepts to reasoning in intellectual property issues and media.
Throughout the 1870s, the condition of the kingdom deteriorated, as food shortages and inflation incited popular revolts and a crime wave of dacoity which the authorities proved powerless to quell.
While refining managerial processes might have ironed out the scope for future factual mistakes, attacks on agents' integrity incited levels of passion inimical to deliberative or bureaucratic resolution.
Few human uses of nonhuman animals (hereafter simply "animals") have incited as much controversy as the use of animals in biomedical research.
