Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-CI-TA-BIL'I-TY, n. [from excite.]

The quality of being capable of excitement; susceptibility of increased vital action by the force of stimulants. Brown.

EX-CIT'A-BLE, a.

1. Having the quality of being susceptible of excitement; capable of increased action by the force of stimulants.
2. Capable of being excited, or roused into action.

EX-CIT'ANT, n.

That which produces or may produce increased action in a living body; a stimulant.

EX'CI-TATE, v.t.

To excite. [Not in use.] Bacon.

EX-CI-TA'TION, n.

The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing or awakening. Bacon. Watts.

EX-CIT'A-TIVE, a.

Having power to excite. Barrow.

EX-CIT'A-TO-RY, a.

Tending to excite; containing excitement. Miller

EX-CITE', v.t. [L. excito; ex and cito, to cite, to call or provoke.]

1. To rouse; to call into action; to animate; to stir up; to cause to act that which is dormant, stupid or inactive; as, to excite the spirits or courage.
2. To stimulate; to give new or increased action to; as, to excite the human system; to excite the bowels.
3. To raise; to create; to put in motion; as, to excite a mutiny or insurrection.
4. To rouse; to inflame; as, to excite the passions.

EX-CIT'ED, pp.

Roused; awakened; animated; put in motion; stimulated; inflamed.

EX-CITE'MENT, n.

1. The act of exciting; stimulation.
2. The state of being roused into action, or of having increased action. Stimulants are intended to produce excitement in the animal system.
3. Agitation; a state of being roused into action; as, an excitement of the people.
4. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. Shak.

EX-CIT'ER, n.

1. He or that which excites; he that puts in motion, or the cause which awakens and moves.
2. In medicine, a stimulant.

EX-CIT'ING, n.

Excitation. Herbert.

EX-CIT'ING, ppr.

Calling or rousing into action; stimulating. Exciting causes, in medicine, are those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisponent causes. Parr.

EX-CIT'ING-LY, adv.

So as to excite.

EX-CIT'IVE, a.

Tending to excite.

EX-CIT'IVE, n.

That which excites.

EX-CLAIM', n.

Outcry; clamor. Shak.

EX-CLAIM', v.i. [L. exclamo; ex and clamo, to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.]

1. To utter the voice with vehemence; to cry out; to make a loud outcry in words; as, to exclaim against oppression; to exclaim with wonder or astonishment; to exclaim with joy.
2. To declare with loud vociferation. That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him. Shak.

EX-CLAIM'ER, n.

One who cries out with vehemence; one who speaks with heat, passion or much noise; as, an exclaimer against tyranny. Atterbury.

EX-CLAIM'ING, ppr.

Crying out; vociferating; speaking with heat or passion.

EX-CLA-MA'TION, n.

1. Outcry; noisy talk; clamor; as, exclamations against abuses in government.
2. Vehement vociferation. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak.
3. Emphatical utterance; a vehement extension or elevation of voice; ecphonesis; as, O dismal night!
4. A note by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked: thus!
5. In grammar, a word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing some passion, as wonder, fear or grief.

EX-CLAM'A-TIVE, a.

Containing exclamation.

EX-CLAM'A-TO-RY, a.

1. Using exclamation; as, an exclamatory speaker.
2. Containing or expressing exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase.

EX-CLUDE', v.t. [L. excludo; ex and claudo, to shut, Gr. χλειδοω, χλειω. Properly, to thrust out or eject; but used as synonymous with preclude.]

1. To thrust out; to eject; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
2. To hinder from entering or admission; to shut out; as, one body excludes another from occupying the same space. The church ought to exclude immoral men from the communion.
3. To debar; to hinder from participation or enjoyment. European nations, in time of peace, exclude our merchants from the commerce of their colonies. In some of the states, no man who pays taxes is excluded from the privilege of voting for representatives.
4. To except; not to comprehend or include in a privilege, grant, proposition, argument, description, order, species, genus, &c., in a general sense.

EX-CLUD'ED, pp.

Thrust out; shut out; hindered or prohibited from entrance or admission; debarred; not included or comprehended.