Noah Webster
Instigate
IN'STIGATE, verb transitive [Latin instigo; in and stigo, inusit; Gr. 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.
IN'STIGATE, verb transitive [Latin instigo; in and stigo, inusit; Gr. 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.