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agitated, ppl. a.|ˈædʒɪteɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
†1. Moved, set in motion. Obs.
1620[See under agitate v. 1]. 1659Hammond On Psalm civ. 3. 516 Those agitated clouds, whereby, as with wings, the Angels fly down to us.
2. Moved to and fro; shaken, disturbed.
1660Dryden Astr. Red. 273 As those lees, that trouble it, refine The agitated soul of generous wine. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. xiii. 66 The solitary clerk no longer found time to answer the often agitated bell. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 172 However agitated the surface of the sea may be.
3. Excited, disturbed in mind, having the feelings greatly moved.
1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. 1842 I. 73 An impassioned countenance, an agitated gesture. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 623 He was greatly agitated. The blood left his cheeks.
4. Debated, discussed, kept before the public by discussion.
1640–4Order of Commons in Rushworth Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 355 Notes of things brought into the House, Propounded or Agitated in the House. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. 1. 17 It is also an agitated Controversie with them, Whether, etc. 1868G. Duff Polit. Surv. 104 The long agitated scheme for running a railway down the Euphrates valley. |