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excitative

American  
[ik-sahy-tuh-tiv] / ɪkˈsaɪ tə tɪv /
Also excitatory

adjective

  1. tending to excite.


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Etymology

Origin of excitative

1480–90; < Middle French excitatif < Latin excitāt- ( see excitation) + -īvus -ive

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Rather inspiring too, sometimes, or at least soul excitative.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Less practical surely than the fur coat,—more amusing, certainly, than encyclopedias,—the funny "false faces" grinned up at her with a curiously excitative audacity.

From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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