a. Obs. rare. [f. EXCITE v.; cf. assistful.] Tending to excite to action.

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1615.  Chapman, Odyss., XI. 56. To … Sterne Pluto, and Persephone, apply Excitefull prayrs. Ibid. (1618), Hesiod, II. 423/30. Many afore-studied Exercise, Was instituted, with excitefull prise.

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