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Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." Johnson. I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance. Sir W. Scott.

Something very exciting or great. [Colloq.]

Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. Milton.

Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker.

Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.] The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak.

Exciting sensation; conveying sensation. Huxley.

Exciting sensation.

Causing or exciting sensation. Huxley.

Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight. Spenser.

Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints. The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds . . . made the softest lights imaginable. Sir T. Browne.

Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.

Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.

Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger. -- Sur*pris"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pris"ing*ness, n.

The act of raising or exciting. [R.] A mere suscitation or production of a thing. South.

To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment. Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy life. Dryden.

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! Shak.

Act or power of exciting emotion. Not alone The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, Do strongly speak to us. Shak.

, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tubercles and tuberculosis.

Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting. Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes. Milton.

Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac. [Obs.]