- (v.t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism or any of its parts.
- (v.t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
- (v.t.) To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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