English Dictionary

instigator

/ˈɪnstɪɡeɪtə/

noun

A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.

The instigator of the argument was trying to provoke a fight.

意味（1）

A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.

[T]he Pope doth not keepe his quarter, but will needs breake forth of the rayles and limits of that diſtinction, taking vpon him to be authorized alſo temporally, and that, for the ſuppreſſion and ſubverſion of the Civill Soveraignity, […] whence muſt neceſſarily ariſe either privie complottings, or open attempts, in favour of their opinions, and in furtherance of their deſires, which how farre it will extend, and into how deepe degrees it vſeth to grow, many ſorowfull and fearefull examples hath in this Realme demonſtratively declared vnto vs, to every whereof Papacy hath beene the ſtirrer and inſtigator.