- (v.i.) To cause provocation or anger.
- (v.i.) To appeal. [A Latinism].
- (v.t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; especially, to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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