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Cut in; carved; engraved.

In an incised manner.

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance. Milton.

Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting. "An incisive, high voice." G. Eliot. And her incisive smile accrediting That treason of false witness in my blush. Mrs. Browning.

One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.

Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive.

A cut; an incision; a gash. Derham.

Inciting; stimulating.

The act of inciting or moving to action.

A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant. [R.] Jervas.

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.

The act of inciting.

One who, or that which, incites.

So as to incite or stimulate.

Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.

Incitomotor.

Uncivil; rude. [Obs.] Shak.

The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson.

The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

Uncivilly. [Obs.] Shak.