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Incite

Definitions: Incite

Incite

Verb

1. Give an incentive; "This moved me to sacrifice my career".

2. Provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people".

3. Urge on; cause to act.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "incite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Incite \In*cite"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Incited; present participle verb or noun Inciting.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonyms: Incite

Synonyms: egg on (v), instigate (v), motivate (v), move (v), prod (v), prompt (v), propel (v), set off (v), stir up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Incite

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Motive

Stimulate; (excite); spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate;act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.

Violence

Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Incite

English words defined with "incite": AllooepiplexisHartenIncited, Inciting, IncitinglyobsceneReincitspur, subornTallyho, Tarre, To put one one's mettle, To put up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "incite": Fisher of Soulsspieler. (references)
Etymologies containing "incite": Harten, Hortation. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Incite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (incites).

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Modern Usage: Incite

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women leading to anarchy of biblical proportions. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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Commercial Usage: Incite

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Periodicals

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Sounds Captioned with "Incite".

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Activate; alert; animate; arouse; awaken; call forth; enliven; excite; incite; kindle; provoke; revive; stimulate; stir up; vivify; awake.
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Familiar Quotations: Incite

AuthorQuotation

René Descartes

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Incite

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

So imprinted in our minds is the fear of plague that, even now, entering into the 21st century, a suspected plague outbreak can incite mass panic and bring much of the world's economy to a temporary standstill. (references)

Civil Liberties

Fiji

However, the Public Order Act and other laws prohibit actions that are likely to incite racial antagonisms. (references)

India

This code includes a commitment not to publish articles or details that might incite caste or communal violence. (references)

Venezuela

Then-Foreign Minister Rangel accused Aure of being involved in a conspiracy to incite unrest within the military. (references)

Human Rights

Singapore

In November a man was arrested for an Internet posting which authorities alleged was an "attempt to incite violence or disobedience to the law" during the general election. (references)

Minorities

Iceland

There is no law that prohibits organizations that promote and incite racial discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

Israel and the occupied territories

A number of NGO's claim that these restrictions often exceed those justified by security concerns, and that they are provocative and incite public reaction. (references)

Political Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Subsequent demonstrations led to internal pressures and to an agreement brokered by members of the Caribbean Community that elections would be held in 2001. In November 2000, leaders of the three political parties signed a "Code of Conduct" intended to govern the campaign period, including a pledge of equal time on local radio and other electronic media and an agreement not to incite or encourage violence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Incite

"Incite" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.80% of the time. "Incite" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)87.8%3657,479
Lexical Verb (base form)12.2%5157,705
                    Total100.00%41N/A

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Expressions: Incite

Expressions using "incite": incite smb. to smth. incite to. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Incite

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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2.8 incite

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editor incite

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incite gaming

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incite pc game

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incite pc gaming

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Modern Translations: Incite

Language Translations for "incite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

beroer (abet, agitate, alarm, stir, stir up, touch lightly), agiteer (abet, agitate, stir, stir up). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

stimuloj (fillip, prod, stimulate, urge), shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), ndërsej (bait, instigate, unleash), agjitoj (abet, agitate, stir up). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏حرض (abet, egg on, flesh, foment, instigate, motive, provoke, rouse, set, spark, stir, suborn). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

подстрекавам (abet, egg on, fanaticize, instigate, key up, needle, provoke, set on, sow, string up, suborn, work up), подтиквам (actuate, fillip, goad, help forward, hypo, impel, inspire, invigorate, invite, move, prod, prompt, provoke, resolve, spur, stir up, urge on), подкокоросвам (instigate, prime), подбуждам (abet, actuate, excite, foment, galvanize, instigate, motivate, prod, prompt, provoke, raise, urge on). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(fight), (fan into a flame), (horrified, raise), 指使 (Incited, Inciting), 挑起 (stir up), (carry on a pole, choose), (urge), (to urge on), " (suck). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podnìcovat (actuate, foment, impel, instigate, prod, promote, stimulate), pobuřovat (agitate), pobídnout, poštvat (needle). (various references)

   

Danish

  

udfordre (challenge, defy, provoke). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opstoken (abet, agitate, stir up), opruien (abet, agitate, stir up), ophitsen (abet, agitate, excite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), agiteren (abet, agitate, agitation, stir up, stirring). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

inciti (abet, excite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), sproni (rouse, spur, stimulate, stir up), provoki (defy, provoke), agiti (abet, agitate, stir up). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

arga (abet, carp at, excite, haze, provoke, quibble, rouse, stimulate, stir up), øsa (abet, agitate, excite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), ørkymla (abet, agitate, confuse, puzzle, stir up). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), انگیختن (Fire, Inanimate, Motive, Occasion, Stimulate, Urge), باصراروادارکردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kiihottaa (abet, agitate, excite, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

   

French

  

inciter (induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, interest). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oansjasje (abet, excite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), oanhysje (abet, cheer, encourage, excite, fire, impel, inspire, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge). (various references)

   

German

  

aufhetzen (abet, encourage, excite, impel, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, to abet, to incite, urge), aufreizen (abet, excite, goad, madden, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), anspornen (abet, cheer on, encourage, impel, instigate, prod, spur, spur on, stimulate, to incite, to spur, urge). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υποκινώ (abet, foment, instigate, prompt, stir up). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

agjitoj (abet, agitate, stir up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחרחר (embroil, instigate, snort, stir up quarrel), ל"סית (egg on, entice, foment, inflame, instigate, persuade, seduce, tempt, whet on), לסכסך (instigate, intrigue, make mischief). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ingerel (irritate, nettle, stimulate, titillate, to irritate, to nettle, to provoke, to rasp sy's feelings, to rile, to rot, to tease, to vex), agitál (abet, agitate, stir up, to be on the stump), ösztönöz (drive, excite, innervate, invite, spur, stimulate, to actuate, to incite, to inspire, to prick, to touch up, to urge). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menggosok-gosok (repeatedly rub, rub the wrong way), menggosok (embrocate, furbish, grind, instigate, iron, polish, rub, scour, shine), menggalakkan (encourage), gili (egg on). (various references)

   

Irish

  

saighid (provoke). (various references)

   

Italian

  

incitare (abet, animate, egg, embolden, excite, goad, hound, impel, lash, prompt, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, sting, stir, stir up, tempt), spronare (abet, excite, goad, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, stir, stir up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"る (to arouse, to excite, to incite, to stimulate, to stir up, to tempt), 促す (to demand, to incite, to invite, to press, to quicken, to stimulate, to suggest, to urge). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そそる (to arouse, to excite, to incite, to stimulate, to stir up, to tempt), うながす (to demand, to incite, to invite, to press, to quicken, to stimulate, to suggest, to urge). (various references)

   

Manx

  

greinnaghey (abet, activate, activation, coach, coaching, encourage, encouragement, goad, induce, inducement, prompt, stimulate), greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, egg on, excitation, excite, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up), brasnaghey (affront, aggravation, bait, incense, irritate; incitement, provocation, rev, spur, to provoke). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

egge (goad, instigate), anspore. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inciteay

   

Portuguese

  

incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, excite, goad, hallow, impel, instigate, instigation, move, prod, prompt, prompting, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up, to prompt, urge). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), incita (abet, excite, inflame, instigate, provoke, riot, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

возбуждать (actuate, agitate, energize, engender, exasperate, excite, flush, galvanize, hype up, inflame, innervate, kindle, lash, pique), подстрекать (abet, edge on, egg on, foment, halloo, instigate, lead on, pick a quarrel, poach, set on), подбивать (line, resole). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

stuig (va. incite as dogs to fight or chase), prosnaich, brosnaich (stimulate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tutnuti (set, slip). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

instigar (abet, activate, cause, excite, give rise to, initiate, instigate, provoke, rouse, start, stimulate, stir up), incitar (abet, cheer, encourage, fan, fire, impel, inciter, inspire, instigate, prompting, provoke, put up, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, to prompt, urge, urge on), espolear (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, prick, rouse, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppegga, sporra (fillip, goad, impel, spur, work up), hetsa (bait, hound, stampede), egga (egg on, enkindle, excite, goad, impel, instigate, pique, prod, quicken, set on, stimulate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), tahrik etmek (agitate, egg, egg on, excite, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, sting, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up, work up), kızıştırmak (envenom, escalate, heat, heat up, provoke, warm up), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up), dürtmek (dig, edge on, ginger, ginger up, goad, hustle, jab, jog, jolt, nudge, poke, prod, shove, spur, spur smb. on, thrust), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), alevlendírmek (abet, excite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), підбурювати (abet, agitate, encourage, instigate, prickle, prod, solicit). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

hysian (hiss, set on), annos (set on), annog (advise, exhort, urge). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Incite

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

accendo, cohortor, conciti, concito, erigo, excita, excitabis, excitabit, excitabitur, excitabo, excitandi, excitandum, excitantibus, excitare, excitatas, excitate, excitatus, excitaverunt, excitavi, excitavit, excitet, excito, exhortabatur, exhortamini, exhortamur, exhortando, exhortandos, exhortans, exhortantes, exhortare, exhortari, exhortati, exhortatur, exhortatus, exhortetur, hortabatur, hortare, hortaretur, hortati, hortatus, hortatusque, hortor, instigasset, instigo, invitati, invitatis, invitatos, invitatus, invitaverat, invitavit, sollicita, sollicitabat, sollicitans, sollicito, stimulator, stimulatus, stimulo. (various references)

Old English450-1100

hwettan. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Incite

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 11, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEi pwV parazhlwsw mou thn sarka kai swsw tinaV ex autwn
Latin405VulgateSi quo modo ad aemulandum provocem carnem meam et salvos faciam aliquos ex illis
Old English990West SaxonOn tohopan þæt ic mæg min agen folc sumes weges in nið stihtan and sume hælan.
Middle English1395WyclifIf in ony maner Y stire my fleisch for to folowe, and that Y make summe of hem saaf.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleThat I myght provoke them which are my flesshe and myght save some of them.
Jacobean English1611King JamesIf by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Victorian English1833WebsterIf by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Basic English1964OgdenIf in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

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Matched Bible Translations: Incite

LanguageRomans Chapter 11, Verse 14
Bulgarianне се хвали между клоните; но ако се хвалиш, знай, че ти не държиш корена, а коренът тебе.
Cebuanoaron mangabubho ang akong mga isigka-Judio, basin pa nga sa ingon niana maluwas ang uban kanila.
Chinese或 者 可 以 激 動 我 骨 肉 之 親 發 憤 、 好 救 他 們 一 些 人 。
Croatianne bih li na ljubomor izazvao njih, tijelo svoje, i spasio neke od njih.
Danishom jeg dog kunde vække min Slægt til Nidkærhed og frelse nogle af dem.
DutchOf ik enigszins mijn vlees tot jaloersheid verwekken, en enigen uit hen behouden mocht.
Finnishsytyttääkseni, jos mahdollista, kiivauteen niitä, jotka ovat minun heimolaisiani, ja pelastaakseni edes muutamia heistä.
Frenchafin, s`il est possible, d`exciter la jalousie de ceux de ma race, et d`en sauver quelques-uns.
Germanob ich möchte die, so mein Fleisch sind, zu eifern reizen und ihrer etliche selig machen.
Haitian CreoleMen, mwen kwè konsa m'a rive eksite jalouzi moun ras mwen yo, pou m' ka delivre kèk nan yo.
HungarianHa ugyan felingerelhetném az én atyámfiait, és megtarthatnék közülök némelyeket.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSaya mengharap saya dapat menimbulkan iri hati pada bangsa saya sendiri, supaya dengan jalan itu saya dapat menyelamatkan sebagian dari mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamakalau-kalau aku dapat membangkitkan gairah di dalam hati orang yang daripada daging darahku, dan boleh membawa kepada selamat setengah orang daripada mereka itu.
Italiannella speranza di suscitare la gelosia di quelli del mio sangue e di salvarne alcuni.
Korean이 " 곧 내 골 육 을 아 무 쪼 록 시 기 케 하 여 희 중 에 서 얼 마 를 구 원 하 함 이 라
LatvianKaut kâdâ veidâ pamudinâdams savus ciltsbrâïus uz sacensîbu un daþus no viòiem izglâbdams.
MaoriMe kore e hae nga tangata o toku kikokiko, kia ora ai etahi o ratou i ahau.
Modern Greekισως κινησω εις ζηλοτυπιαν αυτους, οιτινες ειναι σαρξ μου και σωσω τινας εξ αυτων.
Norwegianom jeg bare kunde vekke mine kjødelige frender til nidkjærhet og få frelst nogen av dem.
Portuguesepara ver se de algum modo posso incitar emulação os da minha raça e salvar alguns deles.   
Rumanianwi caut, ca, dacq este cu putinyq, sq stkrnesc gelozia celor din neamul meu, wi sq mkntuiesc pe unii din ei.
ShuarNuna Túrakun átum uwemprarmena Núnisan niisha, Wíishuar ainia nu, nuna iisar uwemprarat tusan wakerajai.
Spanishpor si de alguna manera pueda provocar a celos a los de mi carne y hacer salvos a algunos de ellos.
Swahilinipate kuwafanya wananchi wenzangu wawaonee ninyi wivu, na hivyo nipate kuwaokoa baadhi yao.
Swedishom jag till äventyrs så skulle kunna "uppväcka avund" hos dem som äro mitt kött och blod och frälsa några bland dem.
Thaiเพื่อ"้วยวิธีใ"ก็ตามข้าพเจ้าจะไ"้เร้าใจพี่น้องร่วมชาติของข้าพเจ้าให้เขาเอาอย่าง เพื่อให้เขารอ"ไ"้บ้าง
Ukrainianможе як викличу заздрість у своїх за тілом, і спасу декого з них.
UmaNgkai bago-ku toi, meka' ria mpai' hingka to Yahudi-ku to mehina mpohilo tauna to bela-ra to Yahudi mepangala' hi Pue' Yesus, alaa-na mepangala' wo'o-ramo-rawo hi Pue' Yesus, pai' tehore-ra ngkai huku' jeko' -ra.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Incite

Derivations

Words beginning with "incite": incited, incitement, incitements, inciter, inciters, incites. (additional references)

Words ending with "incite": reincite, zincite. (additional references)

Words containing "incite": reincited, reincites, zincites. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Incite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ancit, dicite, Dincote, encite, ensite, icate, icsitm, inacute, inait, Incadi, Incafe, inceat, incente, inceste, Inci, inciate, incid, incire, incutter, ingite, iniate, iniciate, inito, Innsite, Insite, iuncta, Ncito, vincit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Incite"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "incite" (pronounced i'nsī"t)
3-s ī" tcite, excite, overexcite, recite, sight, site.

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Anagrams: Incite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-n-t"

-2 letters: cent, cine, cite, etic, inti, nice, nite, tine.

-3 letters: ice, net, nit, ten, tic, tie, tin.

-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, ti.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-n-t"
 

+1 letter: citizen, citrine, crinite, ichnite, identic, incited, inciter, incites, kinetic, neritic, nitchie, zincite.

 

+2 letters: actiniae, actinide, canities, citizens, citrines, crinites, ctenidia, cutinise, cutinize, cytidine, enclitic, enticing, ethician, evicting, eviction, exciting, ichnites, inactive, incident, inciters, indicate, indicted, indictee, indicter, indirect, kinetics, lecithin, limnetic, minciest, neuritic, niceties, nicotine, nitchies, reciting, reincite, reindict, syenitic, zincites.

 

+3 letters: actinides, andesitic, anticline, anticrime, antigenic, bijection, bisecting, bisection, carnitine, cenobitic, centesimi, chieftain, chinkiest, chintzier, cinematic, circinate, citizenly, citizenry, clingiest, coediting, cognitive, crediting, cretinism, criminate, criterion, ctenidium, cutinised, cutinises, cutinized, cutinizes, cytidines, deficient, dendritic, depicting, depiction, deticking, dicentric, dietician, digenetic, directing, direction, disinfect, efficient, eliciting, enclitics, enigmatic, ethicians, ethnicity, evictions, excipient, excitonic, extrinsic, fettucini, genitalic, hematinic, identical, incentive, incepting, inception, inceptive, incidents, incipient, incondite, indicated, indicates, indictees, indicters, inductive, inelastic, infecting, infection, infective, inflicted, inflicter, injecting, injection, injective, injustice, insectile, intercity, interdict, intricate, invective, itchiness, kinematic, laciniate, lecithins, melanitic, mendicity, militance, mitogenic, neolithic, nephritic, neuritics, niccolite, nicotines, nictitate, nitpicked, nitpicker, pectizing, picketing, recipient, reincited, reincites, reindicts, reliction, sciential, scientism, scientist, scientize, semitonic, sincerity, ticketing, toxigenic, trichinae, tricotine, vindicate.

 

+4 letters: acetanilid, acetifying, acierating, actinolite, anticaries, anticipate, anticlines, antiemetic, antierotic, antiheroic, antipoetic, antipolice, antiseptic, antithetic, austenitic, beautician, bentonitic, bewitching, bijections, biogenetic, bisections, bitchiness, caninities, carnitines, centiliter, centillion, centricity, certifying, chieftains, chinchiest, chintziest, chittering, cimetidine, cinematize, citizeness, citrulline, coexisting, coincident, conceiting, concertini, conciliate, conicities, creatinine, cretinisms, cricketing, criminated, criminates, crinkliest, criterions, decimating, decimation, dedicating, dedication, deficients, dentifrice, depictions, diagenetic, dicentrics, dieticians, directions, discepting, discretion, disinfects, disjecting, dissecting, dissection, distincter, dyskinetic, emaciating, emaciation, endemicity, endobiotic, endolithic, enticingly, epigenetic, ethicizing, eugenicist, excipients, excitation, excitingly, extincting, extinction, extinctive, fanaticize, feministic, fettuccini, fianchetti, fictioneer, fictionize, finickiest, geneticist, gentamicin, hedonistic, helminthic, hematinics, iatrogenic, iceboating, immittance, impatience, inactivate, inactively, incentives, inceptions, inceptives, inchoative, incidental, incinerate, incitement, incubative, indelicate, indicative, indictable, indictment, indirectly, indiscreet, inexplicit, infections, infectious, infelicity, inflecting, inflection, inflective, inflicters, inflictive, injections, injunctive, injustices, insecurity, insistence, insistency, inspecting, inspection, inspective, instancies, interchain, interdicts, interionic, interstice, intimacies, intoxicate, intragenic, invectives, ionicities, iridescent, isentropic, itinerancy, ivermectin, kinematics, kineticist, licentiate, licentious, medicating, medication, melanistic, meningitic, midsection, militances, minacities, multigenic, munificent, nematicide, nepotistic, niccolites, nictitated, nictitates, nitpickers, nitpickier, noncitizen, nonmimetic, novelistic, omnificent, omniscient, panickiest, percipient, plasticine, pontifices, precipitin, predicting, prediction, prenticing, proficient, psittacine, receipting, recipients, recitation, recruiting, rectifying, reinciting, reindicted, relictions, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctifies, sanctities, scientific, scientisms, scientists, scientized, scientizes, scrutinies, scrutinise, scrutinize, sectioning, speciating, speciation, stenciling, stickiness, sufficient, technician, tenacities, tenebrific, thermionic, thickening, tonicities, trichinize, trickiness, tricotines, trisecting, trisection, tyrocidine, unciliated, unexciting, unindicted, vaticinate, ventriculi, vesicating, vicinities, vindicated, vindicates, vindictive, voiceprint, xenobiotic, xenolithic.

 

+5 letters: accipitrine, accrediting, acetanilide, acetanilids, actinolites, ancientries, anticipated, anticipates, antiemetics, antipyretic, antiscience, antiseptics, antisuicide, bacteriocin, bacterizing, beauticians, benediction, beneficiate, biconvexity, bisectional, brecciating, brecciation, cabinetries, calisthenic, captaincies, carminative, carnalities, cartelising, cartelizing, catechizing, cauterizing, centiliters, centillions, certainties, chickenshit, chieftaincy, christening, cimetidines, cinematized, cinematizes, circinately, citizenries, citizenship, citrullines, clarinetist, cloistering, clonicities, codirecting, codirection, coefficient, cognitively, cointerring, coinventing, colinearity, combinative, communities, competition, concavities, conciliated, conciliates, conditioned, conditioner, condottieri, conflictive, congruities, convexities, copyediting, corecipient, cosmetician, countrified, creatinines, creationism, creationist, crepitating, crepitation, cytokinesis, cytokinetic, decimations, declination, decondition, dedications, deficiently, deification, dentifrices, dereliction, description, desiccating, desiccation, diamagnetic, dilatancies, directional, discontinue, discretions, disinfected, disjunctive, dissections, distinctest, distinctive, doctrinaire, ecumenicist, ecumenicity, edification, efficiently, electrician, elicitation, elucidating, elucidation, emaciations, encomiastic, endomitotic, enigmatical, enunciating, enunciation, equinoctial, eradicating, eradication, eroticizing, esthetician, ethnicities, eugenicists, excitations, excoriating, excoriation, explicating, explication, exsiccating, exsiccation, extinctions, extricating, extrication, facelifting, fanaticized, fanaticizes, fecundities, fibronectin, fictioneers, fictionized, fictionizes, fictiveness, finnickiest, flichtering, freneticism, geanticline, geneticists, gentamicins, goitrogenic, goniometric, helicopting, hesitancies, hyacinthine, iceboatings, iconicities, identically, illicitness, immittances, impatiences, impenitence, impotencies, imprecating, imprecation, inactivated, inactivates, inauthentic, incentivize, inceptively, incertitude, inchoatives, incidentals, incinerated, incinerates, incinerator, incipiently, incitements, inconscient, incontinent, incredulity, incriminate, indehiscent, indicatives, indictments, indirection, inductively, ineffective, inefficient, inexistence, infanticide, infectivity, inflections, inheritance, inoculative, inscriptive, insectaries, insecticide, insectivore, insentience, insincerity, insistences, inspections, instinctive, instructive, interacting, interaction, interactive, interatomic, interceding, interchains, interdicted, interdictor, interethnic, interfacial, interfacing, interlacing, internecine, internuncio, interoffice, interracial, interstices, intervallic, intestacies, intoxicated, intoxicates, intrenching, intricacies, intricately, invectively, itchinesses, ivermectins, jocundities, kinematical, kinesthetic, kinetically, kineticists, lecithinase, licentiates, linecasting, magnificent, maledicting, malediction, manneristic, martensitic, mechanistic, medications, mendacities, mendicities, mentalistic, metafiction, methicillin, metrication, metricizing, microinject, midsections, militancies, miscreating, miscreation, misstricken, misteaching, modernistic, multiclient, multiethnic, natriuretic, necessities, necrotizing, nematicidal, nematicides, neologistic, neuroticism, nitpickiest, nociceptive, noncitizens, nondiabetic, nontheistic, obscenities, obstinacies, optokinetic, pantheistic, pectination, penicillate, percipients, pertinacity, pheneticist, phonemicist, phonetician, planimetric, plasticines, poeticizing, pontificate, precipitant, precipitins, predicating, predication, predictions, princeliest, proficients, psittacines, pugnacities, pyroxenitic, rancidities, ratiocinate, readdicting, recitations, recognition, recondition, recriminate, rectilinear, redirecting, redirection, reification, reindicting, reinducting, reinfecting, reinfection, reinjecting, reinjection, reminiscent, renitencies, replicating, replication, restitching, restricting, restriction, reticencies, reviviscent, rhetorician, ricocheting, rodenticide, romanticise, romanticize, sanctifiers, scientizing, scintillate, scrutinised, scrutinises, scrutinized, scrutinizer, scrutinizes, semanticist, semiotician, sincerities, singlestick, speciations, sphincteric, stencilling, stridencies, stringpiece, synergistic, technicians, telekinetic, thermionics, thickenings, trichinized, trichinizes, trichinoses, tricksiness, trisections, tumorigenic, tyrannicide, tyrocidines, uncertified, uncinematic, unclarities, unrealistic, unsolicited, valediction, vaticinated, vaticinates, vincristine, vindicative, viniculture, viridescent, viscounties, vivisecting, vivisection, voiceprints, xenobiotics.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Incite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 63 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -.-.    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0063 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

438069758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Bible Trace
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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