- Incite to action - Incite to anger - To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to
incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition;
hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by
taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend
intolerably; to cause to retaliate. - To cause provocation or anger. - To appeal. [A Latinism]