What does "provoke" mean?
Provoke: Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi.
Additional senses
- 2.Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray. To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs. See Irritate.
- 3.To cause provocation or anger.
- 4.To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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