<noun.person> she was the instigator of their quarrel
a person who initiates a course of action
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Instigator \In"sti*ga`tor\, n. [L.: cf. F. instigateur.] One who instigates or incites. --Burke.
Syn: inciter, instigant.
The instigator of the ethic charges that have House Speaker Jim Wright fighting for his political life said today that Wright should not be permitted to make a political deal to resolve the case against him.
For "The Tender Land," the instigator was Mr. Sidlin, music director of the New Haven Symphony, who went to extraordinary lengths to realize his dream.
Victor Benoit, the group's co-leader who was named by Saint-Pierre as an instigator of the uprising, also denied involvement and said Thursday he would sue the information minister.
The warning mentioned no names, but conservative party leaders who ordered the crackdown were said to have singled out party chief Zhao Ziyang as the instigator and ordered his ouster.
Namora, who was proposed for the Nobel Prize in 1981, was an instigator of the neo-realist spirit in Portuguese literature that tried to capture the texture of rural life in the 1940s.
She takes risks, she's the instigator.
An official in the Interior Ministry press office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said police on Monday arrested Miriam Arguello, secretary-general of the opposition Conservative Party for "being the principal instigator" of Sunday's rally.