concitation
concitation noun: rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
Noun
concitation (plural concitations)
- Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
- So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- The revelations of heaven are conceived by immediate illumination of the soul; whereas the deceiving spirit, by concitation of humours, produces conceited phantasmes.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Forms of concitation
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Origin of concitation
From Latin concitātiōnem, from concitāre. Compare concitate.
Words formed from concitation
Questions about concitation
- What does concitation mean?
- Concitation means rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
- What part of speech is concitation?
- Concitation is a noun.
- What is the plural of concitation?
- The plural of concitation is concitations.
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