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To excite; to rouse into action; to incite. To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist. Talfourd.

To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.

Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [Obs.]

s, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft.

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

nother which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. Pope.

of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

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.

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

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