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Definition
start or set into motion — typically some kind of conflict
- 'Oh, you are going to perform an act of heroic virtue: to confess you murdered your father, that the valet murdered him at your instigation.'Book 11 — Ivan (98% in)
- Supposing that he did agree, it would still follow that Dmitri Karamazov is the murderer and the instigator, and Smerdyakov is only a passive accomplice, and not even an accomplice, but merely acquiesced against his will through terror.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (57% in)
There are no more uses of "instigate" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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