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erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.

To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings. To exsasperate them against the king of France. Addison.

To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

Tending to excite; exciting.

To excite. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.

Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. Barrow.

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.

Serving or tending to excite; excitative. [R.] Bamfield.

Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.

g nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.

The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

One who exhorts or incites.

A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath. A formidable explosion of high-church fanaticism. Macaulay.

To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Johnson.