Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Excitable; restless.

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  • adjective pathology Being abnormally excited.

Etymologies

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See erethism

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Examples

  • Although the temperature, in sthenic cases, should be a little lower than in erethic cases, it is not advisable to use the water very cold, as this would cause too strong a reaction, and consequently new excitement.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • The _mild_ or _erethic form_ of scarlatina anginosa requires about the same treatment as scarlatina simplex.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • _Treatment_ of the _mild_, or erethic _Form_ of scarlatina anginosa 40-50

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • This intense passionateness must react powerfully on the whole system, and more particularly on those parts which are capable, such as the brain, of using up a great surplus of blood, and on the naturally erethic functions of sex.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

  • "There is almost no feature, article of dress, attitude, act," Dr. Stanley Hall has truly remarked, "or even animal, or perhaps object in nature, that may not have to some morbid soul specialized erogenic and erethic power."

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • For most men, however, it seems probable that this self-control over the processes leading to the involuntary act of detumescence is difficult to acquire, while in weak, nervous, and erethic persons it is impossible.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • In a case which, I have been assured may be accepted as authentic, a young wife of highly erotic, very erethic, slightly abnormal temperament, after a month's absence from her husband, was excited twenty-six times within an hour and

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • We do not want "will-virtuosos," who perform feats hard to learn, but then easy to do and good for show; nor spurtiness of any sort which develops an erethic habit of work, temper, and circulation, and is favored by some of our popular sports but too soon reacts into fatigue.

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

  • The zest of it vents and satisfies the strong passion of youth for intense erethic and perhaps orgiastic states, gives an exaltation of self-feeling so craved that with no vicarious outlet it often impels to drink, and best of all realizes the watchword of the

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

  • To shout and put forth the utmost possible strength in crude ways is erethic intoxication at a stage when every tissue can become erectile and seems, like the crying of infants, to have a legitimate function in causing tension and flushing, enlarging the caliber of blood vessels, and forcing the blood perhaps even to the point of extravasation to irrigate newly growing fibers, cells, and organs which atrophy if not thus fed.

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

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