English

Verb

excitate ‎(third-person singular simple present excitates, present participle excitating, simple past and past participle excitated)

1. (obsolete) To excite.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

   • Sir Thomas Browne

     For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.

Latin

Verb

excitāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of excitō

References

• excitate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “excitate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.