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encite

encite is the obsolete form of incite.

Meaning of incite

Verb

incite (third-person singular simple present incites, present participle inciting, simple past and past participle incited)

  1. (transitive) To call into action.
    • The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
  2. (transitive) To entreat an act.
  3. (transitive) To instigate a specific incident.

Forms of encite

third-person singular presentencites
present participleenciting
past participleencited
pastencited

Questions about encite

What is encite the obsolete form of?
Encite is the obsolete form of incite.

Words near encite in the dictionary

  1. encirclingly
  2. encirclings
  3. encise
  4. Enciso
  5. Encisos
  6. encite
  7. encitement
  8. encitements
  9. encites
  10. Enck
  11. Encke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encite (page history and authors); incite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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