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from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to excite.

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  • adverb In an exciting manner

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  • adverb in an exciting manner

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Examples

  • The truth is that I would rather see even the thinnest episode of The Sopranos or almost any half hour of Blind Date rather than read most contemporary fiction of the kind which tells the story blow by blow, in well-pressed sentences, stories which can be better and more excitingly told in another medium and which are really fodder for movies and TV.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

  • As described on their site and this gizmowatch article, it's excitingly close to the kind of 'Dopplr for cultural heritage' or 'pocket curatr' I've written about before:

    Getting closer to a time machine-x-curator in your pocket Mia 2009

  • Most excitingly today on Offworld, area/code's iPhone puzzler Drop7 -- still one of the platform's absolute best, and one of the very few that (four months later) I'm still playing on a daily basis -- got a social update with worldwide leaderboard and Facebook Connect support that finally legitimizes its 'sequence' mode, and saw the release of a short EP of its fantastic Steve Reich-ian soundtrack.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The truth is that I would rather see even the thinnest episode of The Sopranos or almost any half hour of Blind Date rather than read most contemporary fiction of the kind which tells the story blow by blow, in well-pressed sentences, stories which can be better and more excitingly told in another medium and which are really fodder for movies and TV.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

  • His violin music was getting more and more astonishing, his genius more apparent, and when he played, forcefully, in the louder limits, it swung him around back and forth, excitingly, and his head pushed back into his neck.

    The Illuminated Dream Tantra Bensko 2011

  • Will urges his students to find the bravery to "travel the distance between desire and action," but though intellectual desire is excitingly present in "You Deserve Nothing," the real-world action is marked by a dour indifference.

    Rootless Urban Transplants Sam Sacks 2011

  • I was in the car this morning and I found myself doing that annoying-writer thing where I was excitingly extolling various plot points with Shawn ... as her eyes are glazing over because there's no context for any of it, but she's smiling at my enthusiasm.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010

  • Now we have a new collection of her stories and essays, and perhaps most excitingly—though they are not mentioned in the title—her plays.

    The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011

  • Depending on your point of view, Mitt Romney became either excitingly emotional or rattled under the stress of running, at a town hall meeting.

    The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Aug. 26, 2011 2011

  • The truth is that I would rather see even the thinnest episode of The Sopranos or almost any half hour of Blind Date rather than read most contemporary fiction of the kind which tells the story blow by blow, in well-pressed sentences, stories which can be better and more excitingly told in another medium and which are really fodder for movies and TV.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

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