Excitive
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 That which excites; an excitant. archaic
Adjective
- 1 excited archaic
"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.
"What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From excite + -ive.
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