excitive

comparative more excitive · superlative most excitive

1. archaicexcited

   Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading.

   1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology

2. Serving or tending to excite; excitative.

   What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]

   1818, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases

plural excitives

1. archaicThat which excites; an excitant.