Word Meanings - INSTIGATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who instigates or incites. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSTIGATOR)

• Abettor
• Supporter
• advocate
• instigator
• promoter
• assistant
• companion
• accomplice
• ally
• encourager
• associate
• adviser
• confederate
• 'participes criminis'
• coadjutor
• accessary
• helper

Related words: (words related to INSTIGATOR)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• INSTIGATOR
  One who instigates or incites. Burke.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ACCOMPLICESHIP
  The state of being an accomplice. Sir H. Taylor.
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• ADVISER
  One who advises.
• COADJUTOR
  The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. (more info) 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• COMPANION
  companio , fr. L. com- + panis 1. One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate;
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• ASSOCIATESHIP
  The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
• ADVISERSHIP
  The office of an adviser.
• CONFEDERATE
  Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. (more info) join
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• HELPER
  One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
• ASSOCIATED
  Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements , consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.
• ACCOMPLICE
  An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson. Note: It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of)
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• REASSOCIATE
  To associate again; to bring again into close relatoins.