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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

concitatio

. See

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating.

[Obs.]

“The concitation of humors.”

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

[L., to stir or disturb.] The act of stirring up, exciting or putting in motion.

concitation ‎(plural concitations)

(archaic) Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.31:
  So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie […].
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