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English
Etymology
From Latin concitātiōnem, from concitāre. Compare concitate.
Noun
concitation (plural concitations)
- (archaic) Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie […].
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:The revelations of heaven are conceived by immediate illumination of the soul; whereas the deceiving spirit, by concitation of humours, produces conceited phantasmes.
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