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Excitive

Ex-cit′ive

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Adj.
Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
[R.]
Bamfield.

Ex-cit′ive

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Noun.
That which excites; an excitant.
[R.]

Definition 2024


excitive

excitive

English

Adjective

excitive (comparative more excitive, superlative most excitive)

  1. (archaic) excited
    • 1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology:
      Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading.
  2. Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
    • 1818, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases
      What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain []

Noun

excitive (plural excitives)

  1. (archaic) That which excites; an excitant.