Provoke

v. a. (provoco, Latin.) 1. To rouse; to excite by something offensive; to awake (Dryden). 2..To anger; to enrage; to offend; to incense (Clarendon). 3. To cause; to promote (Arbuthnot). 4. To challenge (Dryden). 5. 'To induce by motive; to move; to incite (Burnet). 775