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PROVO'KE, 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. Ephesians 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. Romans 10

Let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works. Hebrews 10

7. To incite to rouse as, to provoke one to anger. Deuteronomy 32

PROVO'KE, To appeal. A Latinism,not used.