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exagitate

exagitate verb: to excite, stir up.

Verb

exagitate (third-person singular simple present exagitates, present participle exagitating, simple past and past participle exagitated)

  1. (obsolete) To excite, stir up.
    • the devil many times takes his opportunity of such storms, and when the humours by the air be stirred, he goes in with them, exagitates our spirits, and vexeth our souls […], vol.I, New York, 2001, p.241

Synonyms of exagitate

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Forms of exagitate

third-person singular presentexagitates
present participleexagitating
past participleexagitated
pastexagitated

Origin of exagitate

From the participle stem of Latin exagitāre.

Questions about exagitate

What does exagitate mean?
Exagitate means to excite, stir up.
What part of speech is exagitate?
Exagitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of exagitate?
The past tense of exagitate is exagitated.

Words near exagitate in the dictionary

  1. exaggerativeness
  2. exaggerator
  3. exaggerators
  4. exaggeratory
  5. exaggregate
  6. exagitate
  7. exagitation
  8. exagitations
  9. exagon
  10. exagons
  11. exagram

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