1. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision.
Atterbury. 2. (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
3. (Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. Dunglison.
Excitability
(Ex*cit"a*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. excitabilité.]
1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
2. (Physiol.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they
are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.
Excitable
(Ex*cit"a*ble) a. [L. excitabilis inciting: cf. F. excitable.] Capable of being excited, or roused
into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
Excitant
(Ex*cit"ant) a. [L. excitans, -antis, p. pr. of excitare: cf. F. excitant.] Tending to excite; exciting.
Excitant
(Ex*cit"ant), n. (Physiol.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased
action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
Excitate
(Ex*cit"ate) v. t. [L. excitatus, p. p. of excitare. See Excite.] To excite. [Obs.] Bacon.
Excitation
(Ex`ci*ta"tion) n. [L. excitatio: cf. F. excitation.]
1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
2. (Physiol.) The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
Excitative
(Ex*cit"a*tive) a. [Cf. F. excitatif.] Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
Barrow.
Excitator
(Ex"ci*ta`tor) n. [L., one who rouses.] (Elec.) A kind of discarder.
Excitatory
(Ex*cit"a*to*ry) a. [Cf. F. excitatoire.] Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
Excite
(Ex*cite") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excited; p. pr. & vb. n. exciting.] [L. excitare; ex out + citare to
move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.]
1. To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined
or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to
excite heat by friction.
2. (Physiol.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
Syn. — To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. — To Excite, Incite.
When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or
urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip,
and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body
of Cæsar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee
from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of
plunder.
Exciteful
(Ex*cite"ful) n. Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
