0 a person who causes something to happen, especially something bad:
The instigators of the disturbance have not yet been identified.
This was especially visible in the period of institution-based care between 1920 and 1950, with the training institution and the student association as instigators.
Consequently, substituted or newly coined terms may acquire meanings that were not intended by their instigators.
Yet her father, as the instigator of the disasters that follow, is the more to blame.
Usually those reported to have been instigators of the crimes were adult males over the age of 35.
The instigator must bear the cost of this, the principle being that the destroyer pays (the 'instigator principle').
Women were represented as the victims rather than the instigators of adultery.
Thus, at present, the main instigator of violence in the adolescent dyad and nature of the dyadic interaction remains an empirical question.
The instigator finds an archaeological firm and negotiates the cost and conditions for the work to be carried out.
