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excitate

excitate verb: to excite.

Verb

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

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) To excite.
    • the Earth being excitated to wrath1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
    • 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...1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of excitate

third-person singular presentexcitates
present participleexcitating
past participleexcitated
pastexcitated

Origin of excitate

From Latin excitatus, past participle of excitare. See excite.

Words formed from excitate

Questions about excitate

What does excitate mean?
Excitate means to excite.
What part of speech is excitate?
Excitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of excitate?
The past tense of excitate is excitated.

Words near excitate in the dictionary

  1. excitance
  2. excitances
  3. excitancy
  4. excitant
  5. excitants
  6. excitate
  7. excitated
  8. excitates
  9. excitating
  10. excitation
  11. excitation energies

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