Monday, April 1, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: excitive

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excitive
Apr 2nd 2013, 00:38

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#* {{quote-book|year=1910|author=Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park|title=A Williams Anthology|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11658

  

#* {{quote-book|year=1910|author=Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park|title=A Williams Anthology|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11658
 

|passage=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. }}

  

|passage=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. }}
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# Serving or tending to excite; [[excitative]].
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#: {{rfquotek|Bamfield}}
   
 

===Noun===

  

===Noun===

Latest revision as of 00:38, 2 April 2013

[edit] English

[edit] Adjective

excitive (comparative more excitive, superlative most excitive)

  1. (archaic) excited
    • 1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology[1]:
      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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bamfield to this entry?)

[edit] Noun

excitive (plural excitives)

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