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incitation|ɪnsɪˈteɪʃən|
[a. F. incitation (14th c.), ad. L. incitātiōn-em, n. of action f. incitāre to incite.]
1. The action of inciting; stirring up, incitement, stimulation, instigation.
c1477Caxton Jason 89 b, Medea cam and mette with him by the incitacion and admonishment of loue. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 89 This accident hapned..by the incitation of certaine souldiers. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. viii. 103 Pharoes seruants, by whose meanes and incitation Abraham had his Wife taken from him. 1710Addison Tatler No. 255 ⁋2 Is there any Thing that tends to Incitation in Sweetmeats more than in ordinary Dishes? 1842Sir H. Taylor Edwin iii. iii, The seculars By secret incitation hearten'd up, Will give their voices. 1881Lincoln tr. Trousseau & Pidoux's Therapeutics (ed. 9) III. 297 Brown was sometimes right in the pathological order, if the incitation is repeated and remains the same.
†2. That which incites or stimulates to action; a stimulus, incentive, incitement. Obs.
1622Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 70 These words, Let us pray,..are an Incitation to prayer. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xiii. 3 As an incitation this clause..implieth a due consideration of our own condition. 1709Steele Tatler No. 23 ⁋7 This passion..the strongest and noblest Incitation to honest Attempts.
†3. Power in inciting. Obs.
1656Trapp Comm. Matt. xiii. 34 But now that form (‘as I have loved you’)..is matchless, and more full of incitation to fire affection. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xvi. 553 Where need is of Medicines endued with a certain incitation. |