v. Now rare. Also 6 sussitate, 6–7 suscitat; 6 pa. pple. suscitat(e. [f. L. suscitāt-, pa. ppl. stem of suscitāre, f. sus- = SUB- 25 + citāre to excite (see CITE v.).] trans. To stir up, excite (rebellion, dispute, a feeling, etc.).
1528. Impeachm. Wolsey, 140, in Furniv., Ballads fr. MSS., I. 356. Þou haste suscitate suche A wonderfull dyssencion.
1531. Elyot, Gov., II. iii. (1883), II. 26. That they which do eate or drinke … may sussitate some disputation or reasonynge. Ibid., III. xxvi. 414. He shall … suscitate or raise the courage of all men inclined to vertue.
1536. St. Papers Hen. VIII., II. 298. The disturbance and rebellion suscitate by the said persons.
1557. Edgeworth, Serm., 73. When the Germaynes suscitated and raysed vp all maner of heresies by Luther and that rable.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 12 b/1. We apply the boxes to suscitate the menstrualles of woemen.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., 1 Thess. v. 16 (1649), II. 471. Such a joy a man must suscitate and awaken in himselfe.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xlv. 368. By the approved Doctrine of the ancient Philosophers,… such a brangling Agitation … should be judged to … be quickned and suscitated by the … Inspiration of the Prophetizing … Spirit.
1876. World, V. No. 108. 18. I am not … wantonly suscitating one more unsatisfied curiosity by proclaiming one more unfathomable mystery.
1893. Scribner’s Mag., XIII. 343/1. Suggestions that the soul of inanimate things can … suscitate in the realms of psychological revery.
b. To raise (a person) out of inactivity; to exalt the condition of.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., *vj. As one erectede and suscitatede out of a swound.
1650. Howell, Giraffi’s Rev. Naples, I. 24. Masaniello … began more then ever by sound of Drum to suscitat the peeple.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. v. 90. It is Action that God doth suscitate the Soul to.
1876. J. Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, 158. Thou that dost … Subdue the stern, and suscitate the meek.
† c. To call into being or activity, ‘raise up.’
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 824/1. A prophet … shal your Lord god suscitate and reyse vp for you.
1657. North’s Plutarch, Constantine Gt., 3. The enemy of mankinde … did suscitate and stir up the Heretick Arius.
1885. M. E. Martin, trans. Lasserre’s Mirac. Episodes Lourdes, 356. The obstacles suscitated by the Evil One.
† d. To promote (an action at law). Only in pa. pple. Sc. Obs.
1560. in Maitl. Club Misc., III. 223. The caus being suscitate at the actes in presence of parties to preif as said is in the actioun be Williame. Ibid. (1562), 304. The … caus of diuorce … being suscitat at desyr of Archebald in presens of Anne.
e. To impart life or activity to; to quicken, vivify, animate. ? Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. vii. 308. The Sunne [in Ireland] onely suscitates those formes, whose determinations are seminall.
1813. T. Busby, Lucretius, I. III. 632. And human atoms suscitate the sky.
1830. W. Phillips, Mt. Sinai, I. 148. Soul so suscitates his frame With quicker spark celestial.
Hence Suscitated, Suscitating ppl. adjs.
1811. Shelley, St. Irvyne, Prose Wks. 1888, I. 218. Wildered by the suscitated energies of his soul almost to madness.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LIX. 202. The suscitating juices with which the occidental luxury is presented to us.
