Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN'STI-GATE
IN'STI-GATE, v.t. [L. instigo; in and stigo, inusit., Gr. στιζω, to prick.]
To incite; to set on; to provoke; to urge; used chiefly or wholly in an ill sense; as, to instigate one to evil; to instigate to a crime.
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