"incite him" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to urge or prompt someone to take a certain action. For example, "The student's protest was meant to incite him to take more meaningful action to improve the school system."
Well, I didn't incite him to do it.
All it takes is one question to ignite him, one topic to incite him, one issue to infuriate him.
Verdi saw Lady Macbeth essentially as a study in the sexuality of power, and Guleghina is dangerously sensual, offering herself to Macbeth to incite him to violence, then sinking to the floor in masochistic abandon when he's finally crowned.
So they let the advertisement run as it is, and Graham organizes an interview with Lounds, during which he gives a false and derogatory profile of the Tooth Fairy to incite him.
A reporter questioned Sak as to whether he had ever seen a "Girls Gone Wild" video, and whether that would incite him to make alcohol illegal (Sak replied that he hadn't yet had a chance to review the material).
Practitioners of Chinese cricket fighting use devices known as "ticklers" [53], [54] to lash the antennae of their cricket during a fight and thereby incite him to higher levels of aggression.
"If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists," she wrote.
At the request of the police, news broadcasters had gingerly tried to avoid inciting him.
Chevalier's pleas to the taxi-driver to drive more slowly only incited him to greater speed than ever.
They asked broadcasters to refrain from inciting him with photos of estranged family members and other reminders of his grievances.
He credits Mr. Forsythe, the veteran choreographer, with inciting him to make the move when they spoke last summer in New York.
