PROVOKE
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Pro*voke" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Provoking.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice, cry, call. See Voice.] 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.
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Obey his voice, provoke him not.
Ex. xxiii. 21.
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Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Eph. vi. 4.
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Such acts
Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
To make death in us live.
Milton.
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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?
Gray.
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To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
J. Burroughs.
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Syn. -- To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate.
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Pro*voke", v. i. 1. To cause provocation or anger.
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2. To appeal. [A Latinism] [Obs.] Dryden.
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