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Definition of Instigating
1. instigate [v] - See also: instigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instigating
Literary usage of Instigating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by by John Wesley Monette (1848)
"British Policy of instigating savage Warfare.—Population and Settlements in
1813.—Origin of Creek Hostilities.—Prosperous Condition of the Creeks iu 1812. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Charges of unpremeditated homicide, or of instigating another to inflict bodily harm
... The punishment for instigating a crime was thc same as for actually ..."
3. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"XVI Donald McKay compliments the Navy Department — The War Department suspected
of instigating Attacks on the Navy Department ..."
4. Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the by William Scott (1820)
"Cassius instigating Brutus to join the Conspiracy against Cesar.—TRAG. OF JULIUS
CESAR* HONOR is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other ..."
5. Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the by William Scott (1829)
"Cassius instigating Brutus to join the against Cesar.—TRAG. OF JULIUS CESAE.
HONOUR is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think ..."
6. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1857)
"THE CLERGY instigating WAR. It is well known to every reader of history, that
the chief foreign wars of England were for centuries wa<>ed to bring France ..."
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