v. Obs. Also 6 exitat. Pa. tense 6 excitate. [f. L. excitāt- ppl. stem of excitāre: see EXCITE.] = EXCITE.
1548. Bp. Hooper, Declar. 10 Commandm. iv. To shew what profit followeth the doing of it, that the commodity might excitate the mind.
1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, II. 435. Thir wordis scho said richt sone him excitate.
1591. Nashe, Prognost., 3. Celestiall bodies, whose influence doth exitat and procure continuall mutability in the lower region.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. iv. 81. For if you touch a piece of wax already excitated with common oyle, it will … attract. Ibid. (1658), Hydriot., 58. Their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 389/2. It was the custom of the Pythagoreans as soon as they waked, to excitate their souls with the Lute.
Hence Excitating ppl. a.
a. 1643. J. Shute, Judgem. & Mercy (1645), 29. The sinnes of other men, they may bee the externall, irritating, exitating cause of Gods judgements.
