0 past simple and past participle of incite
1 to encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant or violent:
She incited racial hatred by distributing anti-Semitic leaflets.
[ + to infinitive ] She was expelled for inciting her classmates to rebel against their teachers.
These measures incited the generalised opposition of the business elite and were the motivating factor behind permanent industrial and political conflicts.
This startling finding was immediately broadcast over loudspeakers and incited mixed feelings of betrayal and fury among the protesters.
The incident incited strong reactions in the press from some intellectuals.
They incited the public to persevere in the boycott.
The willingness of courts to intervene in the regulatory process incited a flood of litigation.
Often men were incited to show the same feeling toward the homeland that they often demonstrated toward their extended families.
In his preface, he predicted that critics would claim that it incited sedition.
Few human uses of nonhuman animals (hereafter simply "animals") have incited as much controversy as the use of animals in biomedical research.
