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incitement|ɪnˈsaɪtmənt|
[f. incite v. + -ment: cf. F. incitement (16th c. in Littré), L. incitāmentum, f. incitāre.]
1. The action of inciting or rousing to action; an urging, spurring, or setting on; instigation, stimulation. † Also, the condition of being incited.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 296 By his continuall incitement. 1647–8Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. (1678) 20 Chiefly by the incitement of the Cardinal. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. ii. Wks. (1851) 64 Incens'd against him..by the incitement of Roscius Cælius Legat of a Legion. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 53 Does the incitement of the influence which in Mr. Galvani's experiments, occasions the muscles of animals to contract, either wholly or in part depend upon any peculiar property of living bodies? 1876E. H. Chapin Faith & Life vi. 105 The method of Christianity is not excitement, but incitement.
2. That which incites or rouses to action; an inciting cause or motive; stimulus, incentive, ‘spur’.
a1600G. C. in Hakluyt Voy. III. 670 And she [Nature] must neede incitementes to her good, Euen from that part she hurtes! 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vii, Let us not therefore make these things an incumbrance..which God sends us as an incitement to proceed with more honour and alacrity. 1709Steele Tatler No. 3 ⁋1 A good Play..must raise very proper Incitements to good Behaviour. 1875Jowett Plato III. 653 Pleasure, the greatest incitement of evil. |