transferred. One who spreads abroad or disseminates something, esp. what is obnoxious or objectionable; a promoter or propagator of discord…

A person who or thing which inspires, arouses, or inflames; an instigator; an inciter.

One who makes a commotion, or raises a tumult; an agitator. Obsolete.

A person who subverts a government, a system, another person, etc. (in various senses of subvert, v.).

= subverter, n.

= subverter, n.

One who excites or takes part in a commotion; one who stirs up tumult or rebellion.

A person who or thing which provokes (in various senses); a challenger, instigator, inciter, irritator; (in later use) spec. = provocateur, n.

= seditionist, n.

A person or agent who introduces the germ of some future idea, practice, or development.

one who stirs up a tumult, a rioter (obsolete).

One who turmoils; a disquieter.

= seditionist, n. Now rare.

A seditious person, a seditionary.

figurative. A person who inflames or excites the passions of men, esp. in regard to political matters; one who stirs up civil strife or violence; a…

derogatory or ironic. A person who claims to be disinterestedly or self-sacrificingly devoted to his or her country, but whose actions or…

One who or that which embroils.

A person who instigates public dissent or unrest; a person who carries out agitation (see agitation, n. 3b).

One who practises sedition or incites others to sedition; a promoter of disloyalty and factious strife against a government or state.

A person (originally a man) employed, esp. by a government, to induce or incite others to violence or illegal acts, in order to secure an arrest…

A professed disturber of quiet; an alarmist.

One who takes part in an insurrection, or who advocates revolt against authority.

A person who provokes a disturbance; an agitator; an agent provocateur (see agent provocateur, n.).

(see quot.).