Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To excite; rouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To excite.
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- verb obsolete To
excite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them unto life again, was a vanity of affection; as not presumably ignorant of the critical tests of death, by apposition of feathers, glasses, and reflection of figures, which dead eyes represent not: which, however not strictly verifiable in fresh and warm cadavers, could hardly elude the test, in corpses of four or five days.
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But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them unto life again, was a vanity of affection; as not presumably ignorant of the critical tests of death, by apposition of feathers, glasses, and reflection of figures, which dead eyes represent not: which, however not strictly verifiable in fresh and warm cadavers, could hardly elude the test, in corpses of four or five days.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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