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Tending to excite; exciting.

To excite. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.

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

A kind of discarder.

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

ng; 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.

Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.

The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

One who, or that which, excites. Hope is the grand exciter of industry. Dr. H. More.

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.

Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.

Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

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

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

exercise; practice; use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.