concitation

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noun

Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.

OriginLatin concitātiōnem →
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Meanings

nounconcitation (plural concitations)

plural concitations

  1. archaicRousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.

    So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie[…].

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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    The revelations of heaven are conceived by immediate illumination of the soul; whereas the deceiving spirit, by concitation of humours, produces conceited phantasmes.

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Origin

  1. Latinconcitātiōnem
  2. Englishconcitation

From Latin concitātiōnem, from concitāre. Compare concitate.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “concitation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concitation.

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