incitation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of inciting or moving to action.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.

   “A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation[…].”