Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
excitate. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
excitate, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
excitate in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
excitate you have here. The definition of the word
excitate will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
excitate, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From Latin excitatus, past participle of excitare. See excite.
Verb
excitate (third-person singular simple present excitates, present participle excitating, simple past and past participle excitated)
- (obsolete) To excite.
- 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
- the Earth being excitated to wrath
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.
Latin
Verb
excitāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of excitō
References
- “excitate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- excitate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
excitate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of excitar combined with te