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Definition of Excite

1. Verb. Arouse or elicit a feeling.

2. Verb. Act as a stimulant. "This play stimulates"

3. Verb. Stir feelings in. "Stir emotions"

4. Verb. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. "The good news will excite her"; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

5. Verb. Stimulate sexually. "The performance is likely to excite Sue"; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

6. Verb. Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of. "The performance is likely to excite Sue"; "The civil war shook the country"

7. Verb. Raise to a higher energy level. "Excite the atoms"

8. Verb. Produce a magnetic field in. "Excite the neurons"

Definition of Excite

1. v. t. To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

2. v. t. To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.

Definition of Excite

1. Verb. (transitive) To stir the emotions of. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) , (physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Excite

1. to arouse the emotions of [v -CITED, -CITING, -CITES]

Medical Definition of Excite

1. 1. To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction. 2. To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. Synonym: To incite, awaken, animate, rouse or arouse, stimulate, inflame, irritate, provoke. To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of Caesar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder. Origin: L. Excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. Esciter, exciter, F. Exciter. See Cite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excite

excitation spectrum excitation wave excitations excitative excitator excitatory excitatory amino acid excitatory amino acid agents excitatory amino acid agonists excitatory amino acid antagonists

excitatory amino acids excitatory junction potential excitatory postsynaptic potential excitatory postsynaptic potentials excitatory synapse excite (current term) exciteable exciteableness excited excited atom

excited catatonia excited state excited states excitedly exciteful excitement excitements exciter exciters excites

Literary usage of Excite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... when, applying his hand to excite it, he saw the shape and figure of all the parts of his hand distinctly and perfectly on the concave superficies of ..."

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