[f. AGITATE v. + -ING2.] a. Eng. Hist. Acting as AGITATORS. b. Disturbing, exciting.
a. 1671. Fairfax, Short Mem. (1699), 119. To prepare a way to this Work, this Agitating Council did first intend to remove all out of the Parliament who were like to oppose them.
1814. Southey, Roderick, xviii. IX. 162. The active agitating joy that fill’d The vale.
1868. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, 47. He trembled under the pressure of some agitating thought.
