exhilarate

• It has been proved that the state of piety possesses a direct curative value through its capacity to exhilarate or pacify, according to the needs of a disordered mind. —  The Moral Economy
• The oysters and champagne seemed to exhilarate, if it did not refine, the Doctor's wit. —  Devereux — Complete
• Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist, and its highest effect is to make new artists Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts. —  Essays — First Series
• But almost alone, moving forward through the grey evening to a prison, with so many measured days before him, and nothing to exhilarate or anger--in this condition it was little wonder if he felt, and betrayed that he felt, the blood run slow in his veins; if he thought more of the weeping wife and ruined home which he had left behind him than of the cause in which he had spent himself But God knows, they had no monopoly of gloom. —  Under the Red Robe
• Its role is not to exhilarate us emotionally, but to draw us into the divine action that is the true worship of God. —  Living Without School

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