exciteful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
exciteful (comparative more exciteful, superlative most exciteful)
- (archaic) Full of excitement; exciting
- an exciteful story
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- Stern Pluto and Persephoné, apply Exciteful pray'rs.
References[edit]
- “exciteful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.