Obs. [ad. L. exagitātiōn-em, n. of action f. exagitā-re: see EXAGITATE v.] a. The action of stirring up (the blood, humours, etc.), setting in motion or exciting; also an instance of the same, an excitement. b. Discussion.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1135. This is but a flatulent exagitation.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 474. Animall spirits are made of the vitall, changed by many exagitations and alterations by the arteries.
1632. trans. Bruel’s Praxis Med., 401. Neyther is there any danger of the exagitation of the humors.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 216/2. The exagitation of the more gross particles [of the bloud] is … more languid.
1737. Common Sense (1738), I. 139. Exagitations of Choler, which are apt to break out into Rogue and Rascal.
