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† ˈexcitate, v. Obs.
Also 6 exitat. pa. tense 6 excitate.
[f. L. excitāt- ppl. stem of excitāre: see excite.]
= excite.
1548Bp. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. iv, To shew what profit followeth the doing of it, that the commodity might excitate the mind. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 435 Thir wordis scho said richt sone him excitate. 1591Nashe Prognost. 3 Celestiall bodies, whose influence doth exitat and procure continuall mutability in the lower region. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iv. 81 If you touch a piece of wax already excitated with common oyle, it will..attract. 1658― Hydriot. 58 Their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 389/2 It was the custom of the Pythagoreans as soon as they waked, to excitate their souls with the Lute.
Hence ˈexcitating ppl. a.
a1643J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 29 The sinnes of other men, they may bee the externall, irritating, exitating cause of Gods judgements. |