[f. AGITATE v. + -ING1.] The action of moving, disturbing, discussing (Mostly gerundial.)
1667. [See under AGITATE v. 2].
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 398. Violent Purging … by agitating the Humours often hurts.
1769. Burke, St. of Nat., Wks. 1842, I. 110. Without agitating those vexatious questions.
