instigation

instigation
n
1. inciting, actuating, provoking, poking, prodding, pricking, thrusting, goading, prompting, spurring, egging on; stimulating, motivating, inspiring, rallying, awakening, vivifying, bestirring, encouraging, abetting, emboldening, inducing, impelling, constraining, pressing, pushing, moving, forcing; persuading, inclining, predisposing, influencing, lobbying, coaxing, plying, swaying; tempting, inveigling, beguiling, enticing, wheedling, luring.
2. fomenting, agitating, exciting, arousing, rousing, whipping up, working up, stirring up, winding up, inflaming, enflaming, firing up, kindling, enkindling, touching off, Inf. psyching up.
3. incitement, incitation, actuation, provocation, initiation; stimulation, animation, infection, invigora-tion, motivation, inspiration, vivification; inducement, impulsion; persuasion, inclination, predisposal, influence; temptation, inveiglement, beguilement, allurement, enticement, blandishment, Obs. allectation.
4. fomentation, agitation, excitement, Rare. suscita-tion, perturbation; demagoguery, sensationalism, rabble-rousing, soap-box oratory.
5. incentive, stimulus, provocative, fillip, motive; press, goad, spur, prick, prod, jolt, jog, poke, thrust; impulse, urge, drive, push, itch, desire; dictate, call.

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  • instigation — [ ɛ̃stigasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1332; lat. instigatio, de instigare ♦ Rare Action de pousser qqn à faire qqch. ⇒ incitation. « l action, l instigation directe de ceux qui avaient intérêt à détruire la pétition » (Michelet). Cour. À L INSTIGATION DE. Agir …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Instigation — In sti*ga tion, n. [L. instigatio: cf. F. instigation.] The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness. [1913 Webster] The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devil could bring …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • instigation — Instigation. s. f. v. Incitation, suggestion, sollicitation pressante, par laquelle on pousse quelqu un à faire quelque chose de mauvais. Il a fait cela à l instigation de .... il s est laissé seduire aux instigations d un tel. l instigation du… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • instigation — I noun actuation, agitation, animation, cajolery, causation, coaxing, easement, encouragement, excitation, exhortation, fomentation, goading, helpfulness, hortation, impetus, impulsion, incentive, incitation, incitement, inducement, influence,… …   Law dictionary

  • instigation — early 15c., from M.Fr. instigation and directly from L. instigationem (nom. instigatio), noun of action from pp. stem of instigare urge on, incite, from in in (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + *stigare, a root meaning to prick, from PIE root *steig to… …   Etymology dictionary

  • instigation — Instigation, Instigatio, Instigatus, huius instigatus, Instinctus, Impulsus, huius impulsus. Par ton instigation, Impulsu tuo, Tuo instinctu …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • instigation — (in sti ga sion ; en vers, de cinq syllabes) s. f. Action d instiguer. •   Il leur demanda, à l instigation de Perdiccas, quels étaient les auteurs de la sédition, VAUGEL. Q. C. VIII, 14. •   L âme a péché par le ministère et même en quelque… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • instigation — in|sti|ga|tion [ˌınstıˈgeıʃən] n [U] 1.) at sb s instigation also at the instigation of sb formal because of someone s suggestion, request, or demand ▪ an inquiry set up at the instigation of the White House 2.) the act of starting something …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • INSTIGATION — s. f. Incitation, suggestion, sollicitation pressante par laquelle on pousse quelqu un à faire quelque chose. Il se prend le plus souvent en mauvaise part. Il a fait cela à l instigation d un tel. Il s est laissé séduire aux instigations de ce… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • instigation — n. at smb. s instigation * * * [ˌɪnstɪ geɪʃ(ə)n] at smb. s instigation …   Combinatory dictionary

  • instigation — noun 1 at sb s instigation formal because of someone s suggestion, request or demand: At Canham s instigation, a clerk brought in an electric fan. 2 (U) the act of starting something …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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