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Provoke
PROVO'KE, v.t. [L.provoco, to call forth; pro and voco, to call.]
1. To call into action; to arouse; to excite; as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury; to provoke war.
2. To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage.
Ye fathers,provoke not your children to wrath. Eph 6.
Often provoked by the insolence of some of the bishops--
3. To excite; to cause; as, to provoke perspiration; to provoke a smile.
4. To excite; to stimulate; to increase.
The taste of pleasure provokes the appetite, and every successive indulgence of vice which is to form a habit, is easier than the last.
5. To challenge.
He now provokes the sea-gods from the shore.
6. To move; to incite; to stir up; to induce by motives. Rom 10.
Let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works. Heb 10.
7. To incite; to rouse; as, to provoke one to anger. Deu 32.
PROVO'KE, v.i. To appeal. [A Latinism,not used.]
provoke appears in definitions for these words:
Anger Angered Angred Angry Arise Bairn Boiobi Bully Consider Contentious Dare Defy Discourage Displease Diuretic Easily Edge Emetic Enchafe Enrage Enraged Exasperate Exasperated Excite Fiery Good-natured Grieve Incense Incensive Inflame Inflamed Instigate Invidious Invidiously Irascibility Irritate Irritated Kindle Longsuffering Meek Move Much Nettler Notorious Odium Patient Presumption Provocation Provoke Quarrelous Quarrelsome Resent Resentful Resentive Ridicule Stand Sternutatory Sting Tar Teen Tempt Tempted Uninflamed Unirritated Unprovoked Urge Vexed Wag Warm Whet Whetted
Anger Angered Angred Angry Arise Bairn Boiobi Bully Consider Contentious Dare Defy Discourage Displease Diuretic Easily Edge Emetic Enchafe Enrage Enraged Exasperate Exasperated Excite Fiery Good-natured Grieve Incense Incensive Inflame Inflamed Instigate Invidious Invidiously Irascibility Irritate Irritated Kindle Longsuffering Meek Move Much Nettler Notorious Odium Patient Presumption Provocation Provoke Quarrelous Quarrelsome Resent Resentful Resentive Ridicule Stand Sternutatory Sting Tar Teen Tempt Tempted Uninflamed Unirritated Unprovoked Urge Vexed Wag Warm Whet Whetted
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