excitive
nounEtymology From excite + -ive.
1
Archaic That which excites; an excitant.
excitive
adjEtymology From excite + -ive.
1
Archaic excited
- 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.1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology:
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 […]1818, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases: