Incited Synonyms and Antonyms

Pressed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. driven
  2. pushed
Give an incentive for action
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prompted
  2. stimulated
  3. spurred
  4. provoked
  5. motivated
  6. prodded
  7. instigated
  8. triggered
  9. urged
  10. coaxed
  11. moved
  12. propelled
  13. animated
  14. inflamed
  15. pricked
  16. impelled
  17. induced
  18. goaded
  19. influenced
  20. inspired
  21. encouraged
  22. persuaded
  23. fomented
  24. solicited
  25. excited
  26. agitated
  27. inspirited
  28. seduced
  29. activated
  30. taunted
  31. piqued
  32. lured
  33. lashed
  34. driven
  35. aroused
  36. exhorted
  37. flagellated
  38. enticed
  39. galvanized
  40. roused
  41. compelled
Antonyms:
  1. suppressed
  2. checked
  3. dissuaded
  4. deterred
  5. discouraged
  6. delayed
  7. prohibited
Urge on; cause to act
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prodded

Incited Sentence Examples

  • His guitar wanderings incited a degree of spiritual hysteria, especially for the musician himself.

  • The analysis of bodies into immaterial elements by Leibnitz incited Lotze.

  • She was reconciled with Archbishop Hamilton, and took up arms against the Protestants of Perth, who, incited by Knox, had destroyed the Charterhouse, where many of the Scottish kings were buried.

  • The discordance of their results incited Laplace to a searching examination of the whole subject of planetary perturbations, and his maiden effort was rewarded with a discovery which constituted, when developed and completely demonstrated by his own further labours and those of his illustrious rival Lagrange, the most important advance made in physical astronomy since the time of Newton.

  • Here Bardanes, taking the name of Philippicus, successfully incited the inhabitants to revolt, and on the assassination of Justinian he at once assumed the purple.

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