Meanings
- rareuncountableThe capability of being suscitated; excitability.
Svb. This's Heathen Greek, to you? And, what's your Mercury? Fac. A very Fugitiue, he will be gone, Sir. Svb. How know you him? Fac. By his viſcoſitie, His oleoſitie, and his ſuſcitabilitie.
1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene v3 more examples
Neither suscitability of the still-born infant or the resuscitability of the seemingly dead adult require proof to substantiate their possibility. With life extinguished neither operation has any concern, […]
1917, Detroit Medical Journal, volume 18, page 71One reader writes to say that students of English “will smile at your suscitability over ‘argy-bargy,’ quite common in the piquant argot of Scotland and North England.” We apologize for our suscitability.
1949 January 10, Frank Brookhouser, “It's Happening Here”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 240, number 10, page 21I particularly like the word “suscitate” in connection with teaching and directing. The most fundamental aspect of human movement, breath, is carried on the tongue of suscitate. […] The students’ job is to cultivate “suscitability”—the ability to be stirred awake—and to commit fully to their formation.
2002, Jill Mackavey, “Synergizing Internal and External Actin”, in Nicole Potter, editor, Movement for Actors, New York, NY: Allworth Press, →ISBN, page 206
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