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UK
/ˈɪnstɪɡˌeɪtɐ/
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[ US /ˈɪnstəˌɡeɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪnstəˌɡeɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who initiates a course of action
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someone who deliberately foments trouble
she was the instigator of their quarrel
How To Use instigator In A Sentence
- Coffee has been a comfort, an instigator, and a cure for whatever ails you for hundreds of years.
- He whose questor you had been when general, whose master of the horse when he was dictator, to whom you had been the chief cause of war, the chief instigator of cruelty, the sharer of his plunder, his son, as you yourself said, by inheritance, proceeded against you for the money which you owed for the house and gardens, and for the other property which you had bought at that sale. VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony
- Keeping a sharp eye out for outside civil rights instigators and labor organizer agitators, they are immediately suspicious when he appears in town.
- In fact, the promise of sexual access to outgroup women has often been identified by anthropologists, ethnographers, and native informants as a primary instigator of conflict in prestate societies.
- He was accused of being the main instigator of the coup.
- I am now launching Artists & Instigators practicum-- and I've committed to make the "CO2 emission" of my job real, relevant change. Jason Pollock: EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Fashion Mogul Marc Ecko About 'Unlimited Justice'
- McLaren was often the instigator, and just after the hour mark, he danced to the byline and delivered a cross which caused a moment of panic for Nick Colgan, as it shaved his far post.
- The instigator is his brother-in-law, ostensibly an anarchist but in reality the paid agent of a foreign agency. Archive 2005-07-01
- In the manner of Late Roman politics the instigator of the new troubles, Arbogastes, had been instrumental in bringing down Maximus.
- -- The story of Lord Durie's abduction and captivity is differently told by Chambers in his _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, as far, at least, as the instigator of the kidnapping and its accomplisher are concerned. Stories of the Border Marches