资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Provokement \Pro*voke"ment\, n.
   The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other
   passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.

         Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
                                                  --Shak.