Associations to the word «Instigate»

Wiktionary

INSTIGATE, verb. To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.

Dictionary definition

INSTIGATE, verb. Provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people".
INSTIGATE, verb. Serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin