Word Meanings - INCITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak. Syn. -- Excite; stimulate; instigate;

Additional info about word: INCITE

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak. Syn. -- Excite; stimulate; instigate; spur; goad; arouse; move; urge; rouse; provoke; encourage; prompt; animate. See Excite.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCITE)

• Abet
• Aid
• support
• promote
• countenance
• uphold
• assist
• instigate
• encourage
• incite
• advocate
• sanction
• subsidize
• embolden
• Actuate
• Urge
• stir
• induce
• influence
• incline
• dispose
• impel
• prompt
• drive
• Animate
• Enliven
• Inspirit
• quicken
• exhilarate
• rouse
• revivify
• cheer
• gladden
• stimulate
• Enrage
• Provoke
• madden
• incense
• excite
• aggravate
• irritate
• inflame
• embitter
• infuriate
• exasperate
• Exhort
• advise
• counsel
• enjoin
• animate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INCITE)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to INCITE)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.