Possible Clues:

• Egged on
• Provoked
• Spurred on
• Encouraged, stirred up
• 'Provoked in what was sighted, by the sound of it (7)'
• Provoked to action
• Urged one to get incorporated and tied in a knot
• Egged on to action as in edict
• Stirred up (unlawful activity)
• Encouraged in what one has seen, by the sound of it