单词 | excitator |
释义 | † excitatorn. Obsolete. rare. 1. One who excites; spec. one whose business it is to rouse others from sleep. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific waking or rousing > one who arearera1382 rearera1382 waker1390 raisera1400 awakener1598 awaker1611 rouser1611 excitator1688 arouser1869 waker-upper1935 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 182/1 The Excitator, who wakeneth the Jesuites in the Morning. 2. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Excitator, an instrument employed to discharge a Leyden jar, or other electrical apparatus, without exposing the operator to the consequences of the shock. 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1688 |
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