Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of arousing or exciting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of raising or exciting.
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- noun The act of
raising orexciting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And as for those Greek words anastenai and egei'rein, they endeavour to shew, by other like places of scripture, that they signify no more than the bare suscitation, raising, or giving being to a thing, without its having fallen or perished before.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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The surgeon then advised him, if he had any worldly affairs to settle, that he would do it as soon as possible; for, though he hoped he might recover, yet he thought himself obliged to acquaint him he was in great danger; and if the malign concoction of his humours should cause a suscitation of his fever, he might soon grow delirious and incapable to make his will.
Joseph Andrews Vol 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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a resurrection of the same body, to wit, anastenai, egei'rein, and egei'resthai, &c. infer no such thing in the several texts from whence they are alleged; but only import a bare suscitation, or raising up of
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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"Ah," she said, on a tone judiciously compounded of feminine artlessness and of forthright British candour, and with a play of the eyebrows that attributed her momentary suscitation to the workings of memory, "of course -- Blanchemain.
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883
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