Definition of Instigated

1. Verb. (past of instigate) ¹

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Definition of Instigated

1. instigate [v] - See also: instigate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Instigated

instating
instaunce
instaunt
instauntly
instauration
instaurations
instaurator
instaurators
instead
instead of
insteep
instep
insteps
instigant
instigate
instigated (current term)
instigates
instigating
instigatingly
instigation
instigations
instigative
instigator
instigators
instigatour
instigatrix
instil
instill
instillation
instillations

Literary usage of Instigated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Buddhism in Translations by Henry Clarke Warren (1896)
"Coupled with gladness, not conjoined with knowledge, and instigated 5. ... Coupled with indifference, not conjoined with heresy, and instigated. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... to excitement of the imagination instigated by power over an acoustical phenomenon, the sympathetic vibration of the strings. In 1799 dementi founded a ..."

3. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"... the President's Veto — The Attack on McCulloch instigated by Seward —• Evarts. nominated Attorney-General — Intimations of Another Impeachment Movement. ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... instigated it, or prompted it * To hare no bottom. To be unfathomable. To »land on one'i ovm bottom. ..."

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