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excitive

adj

Etymology

From excite + -ive.

  1. derived from excitō — “to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”
  2. derived from exciter
  3. inherited from exciten
  4. suffixed as excitive — “excite + ive”

Definitions

  1. excited

    • Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading.

  2. Serving or tending to excite

    Serving or tending to excite; excitative.

    • What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]

  3. That which excites

    That which excites; an excitant.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA