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excitable, a.|ɛkˈsaɪtəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. excitābilis, f. excitāre: see excite v. Cf. Fr. excitable.]
Capable of being excited; prone to, or susceptible of, excitement; easily excited. Const. to.
1609Bp. Barlow Answ. Nameless Catholic 305 Their persons are liable to Deposing and killing; and their Subiects excitable to Insurrection. a1677Barrow Serm. xxxii. Wks. 1741 I. 342 His affections were..excitable by their due objects. 1837Lytton E. Maltrav. 25 His flexile and excitable fancy was conjuring up a thousand shapes. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. I. ii, One of those excitable natures which cannot endure the influence of strong drinks. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 53 He is..wonderfully excitable to mirth.
Hence exˈcitableness, the condition or quality of being excitable.
1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 238 A precaution against the excitableness of youth. |