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Definition of Excites
1. excite [v] - See also: excite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excites
Literary usage of Excites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green (1874)
"The object of desire in every case—whether near or remote, whether either by its
novelty or by its contrariety to other passions it excites more or less ..."
2. A Political and Civil History of the United States of America: From the Year by Timothy Pitkin (1828)
"... fence of 1763—An important event to the Colonies—excites great joy in America—
Navigation Acts enforced by writs of assistance—Opposed in Massachusetts— ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"The object of desire in every case—whether near or remote, whether either by its
novelty or by its contrariety to other passions it excites more or less ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"of the historian, or the merit of the sufferers, excites in our breasts the most
lively sensations of terror, of admiration, and of pity. ..."
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