Latin origin. Dictionary Andy. Easy. "To urge on or provoke."...

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    Latin origin. Dictionary Andy. Easy. "To urge on or provoke." Who did Putin urge on and provoke, Andy? Just stop it. It's depressing and insulting to watch your lame and poor propaganda misinformation campaign.

    It's time to investigate the true meaning of instigate. Instigate is often used as a synonym of incite (as in "siblings instigating a fight"), but the two words differ slightly in their overall usage. Incite usually stresses an act of stirring something up that one did not necessarily initiate ("the court's decision incited riots"), while instigate implies responsibility for initiating or encouraging someone else's action, and usually suggests dubious or underhanded intent ("he was charged with instigating a conspiracy"). Coming from a form of the Latin verb instigare ("to urge on or provoke"), instigate stepped into English in the 1500s, roughly a century after incite.

    Instigate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
 
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