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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

suscitatio

: cf. F.

suscitation

The act of raising or exciting.

[R.]

A mere

suscitation

or production of a thing.

South.

Noun.

The act of raising or exciting.

suscitation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural suscitations)

(obsolete) The act of raising or exciting.
- Robert South
  But the Answer to this, is not difficult, viz. That the Point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare Grammatical Use of these Words; (according to which we deny not, but that they sometimes import a mere Suscitation or Production of a thing, without supposing any precedent Destruction of the same;) […]