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Excited   /ɪksˈaɪtəd/  /ɪksˈaɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Excite  v. t.  (past & past part. excited; pres. part. exciting)  
1.
To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
2.
(Physiol.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
3.
(Elec.) To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.
4.
(Physics) To raise to a higher energy level; used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.
Synonyms: To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of Caesar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder.





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"Excited" Quotes from Famous Books



... In answer to excited inquiries from on board, he directed that they should stand by with arms, at the same time calling attention to the weather side of the boat, where was observed a great commotion in the water causing a bright, phosphorescent glow, which left no doubt of the unpleasant ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... improved. The result of this activity has been that the main features of the developmental history of all the most important animals are now known and the curiosity as to developmental processes, so greatly excited by the promulgation of the Darwinian theory, has to a ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... It was hanging almost stationary in the northern sky, like a huge yellow gourd. After a while it made off toward the weSt. One day last week three of them passed, all bound presumably for Paris or Antwerp, or even London. That time the people grew a bit excited; but now they take a Zeppelin much as a matter of course, and only wonder mildly where it came from and whither it ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... his eyes on his friend's averted face. The ashes dropped from his cigar, scattering a white trail across the carpet which had excited Mrs. Nimick's envy. ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... not dead, but in great danger. It appears that Weingarten is in great need of money; for a hundred louis d'or, which I promised him, he confided to me that Trenck's enemies had excited the suspicions of the king against him, and declared that Trenck had designs against the life ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach


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