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One who instigates or incites. Burke.

Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.

and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

One who searches diligently into a subject.

A strap for tightening a saddle girth. [Western U. S. & Sp. Amer.]

A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.

Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

Such as can be litigated.

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe.

or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.

The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

One who litigates.

contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. Donne.

In a litigious manner.

The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.

One of the Mastigopoda.