In-çite', v

t. [Fr. inciter, from Lat. incito =to urge forward: in- =in, on, and cito =to urge; Sp. incitar; Ital. inc it are.] To stir up; to urge on; to move or stimulate to action; to spur on; to animate, to instigate, to provoke, to prompt, to en courage. "These Mars incites , and those Minerva fires." Pope: Homer's Iliad iv. 499. For the difference between to incite and to en courage , see ENCOURAGE; for that between to incite and to excite , see EXCITE.