re-excitev.
/ˌriːᵻkˈsʌɪt/, /ˌriːɛkˈsʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌriɪkˈsaɪt/, /ˌriɛkˈsaɪt/ transitive. To excite or stimulate again.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > again
reproduce1584
rebeget1611
re-excite1670
reinduce1800
the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [verb (transitive)]
erect1620
stimulate1662
irritate1803
re-excite1816
excite1832
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up > again
reulcerate1601
re-excitea1845
1670 J. Davies tr. Cebes's Tablet in Life & Philos. Epictetus 141 He makes his applications to Repentance, she..re-excites in him a desire of applying himself to True Doctrine.
1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 438 Such Sounds, thro' the use of the Words are apt to re-excite the Memory.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 160 As he..tried to..rouse to action his..torpid machine, he blushingly own'd, that no good was to be expected from it, unless I took in hand to re-excite it's languid, loitering powers.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxvii. 507 The instinct..lies dormant: but transfer the bees to a new hive..and it is instantly re-excited.
a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 269 New..fields of knowledge, which have re-excited those faculties..and improved them by exercise.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 483 In this way eruptions are repeatedly re-excited.
1913 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 13 350 Some people advocate waiting till all tenderness has passed before commencing, in case you re-excite the inflammatory process.
1993 Sci. Amer. July 57/1 In that case, the impulses could reexcite the origin, sending impulses back into the diseased circuit.
Derivatives
re-exˈcited adj.
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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 53 The increased action and re-excited energy that restore the system to a balance of health.
1904 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 15 13 The remembered event (i.e., the re-excited trace of the past experience) is projected upon a schematic and hazy apperception-mass.
1995 Miami Herald (Nexis) 14 Dec. 1 Some of these kids have just been turned off by the system. It's a matter of turning them back on, getting them re-excited about it.
re-exˈciting adj.
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1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. I. x. 191 The magic rod of fanaticism..needs only the re-exciting warmth of a master hand to bud forth afresh.
1964 J. Z. Young Model of Brain xiii. 211 Here we may notice that because it contains re-exciting circuits it could provide an increase in the ‘command to attack’ by what amounts to a positive feed-back.
1991 Biol. Bull. 180 200/1 The visual memory [of cephalopods] lies in the optic lobe and four matrices, with some re-exciting pathways.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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