excitate

present singular third person excitates · participle present excitating · participle past excitated · past excitated

1. nonstandardobsoleteTo excite.

   the Earth being excitated to wrath

   1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')

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   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.

   1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC