excitative, a.
(ɛkˈsaɪtətɪv)
[a. F. excitatif, -ive, as if ad. L. *excitātīv-us, f. excitāre: see excite v.]
Able or tending to excite: in senses of the verb. Const. of.
| 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxii. (1890) 78 Exhortacions & pyetous remonstrances excytatiue of all well wyllyng. a 1677 Barrow Exp. Creed (T.) Admonitory of duty and excitative of devotion. 1704 Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 408 The Pythagoreans..said that Fire is the..Excitative Power. 1847 R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath iv. (1848) 135 Who can say what shall be the growth of holiness..where all is auspicious and excitative? 1881 Nature XXIV. 208 [Paper read] on the thermal laws of the excitative spark of condensers. |