Obs. Sc. [ad. L. agitāt-us pa. pple. of agitā-re to move to and fro, freq. of ag-ĕre to drive.] Equivalent to the later AGITATED.
1. Tossed about, disturbed (mentally).
1567. Test. K. Hen. Stewart, in Sc. Poems of 16th C., II. 258. Sumtyme in mynde with anger agitat.
2. Debated, discussed.
1634–46. J. Row (father), Hist. Kirk (1842), 183. The Kirk desyres the King … to heare everie weightie thing concerning the estate agitat.
