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Definition of Instigative
1. Adjective. Arousing to action or rebellion.
Similar to: Provocative
Derivative terms: Incite, Inflame, Instigate, Sedition
Definition of Instigative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instigative
Literary usage of Instigative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Method of the Divine Government, Physical and Moral by James McCosh (1882)
"To every emotion of the one class, there is a corresponding emotion of the other
class. Thus— (1.) Some are instigative, and others ..."
2. Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology by Franklin Henry Giddings (1906)
"They lack aggressiveness, and in so far as they work upon human beings in their
industrial and political activities, they are instigative rather than ..."
3. Socio-anthropometry: An Inter-racial Critique by Beatrice Louise Stanoyevich, Beatrice Louise Stevenson (1916)
"Italian disposition is a combination of the aggressive and instigative,—aggressive
as old Rome was aggressive, and instigative as have been the cabals and ..."
4. Contact with the Other World: The Latest Evidence as to Communication with by James Hervey Hyslop (1919)
"In these cases the stimulus is only instigative. But a transmissive stimulus
produces results less symbolical. The thought of the foreign agent seems to be ..."
5. Inductive Sociology: A Syllabus of Methods, Analyses and Classifications by Franklin Henry Giddings (1901)
"Other individuals are instigative; they incite their fellows to act, ... In other
individuals a convivial character, an instigative disposition, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1917)
"(2) What I may call the instigative type which is illustrated by the Doris case
and a ... But the instigative type is that in which the discarnate acts as a ..."
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