excitate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin excitatus, past participle of excitare. See excite.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To excite.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

   • Sir Thomas Browne

     For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “excitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) excitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of excitō

References

• “excitate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• excitate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.