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To incite, stimulate, or induce into action; goad into an unlawful or bad action, such as a crime. The term instigate is used synonymously with abet, which is the intentional encouragement or aid of another individual in committing a crime. |
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And already almost overcome and conquered not moderately by instigative and internal appetite, silently thinking, thoughts among me variously altercated: 'O most happy, above any other lover, is he who will join to her in love, if not wholly, in least in a shared part. No longer is Columbus the heroic admiral of discovery; but now he is a complicit and instigative player in the atrocities committed by the Spanish conquistadores and colonizers. |
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