a. [a. F. excitatif, -ive, as if ad. L. *excitātīv-us, f. excitāre: see EXCITE v.] Able or tending to excite: in senses of the verb. Const. of.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxii. (1890), 78. Exhortacions & pyetous remonstrances excytatiue of all well wyllyng.
a. 1677. Barrow, Exp. Creed, in Wks. (1741), I. 430 (T.). Admonitory of duty, and excitative of devotion.
1704. Hearne, Duct. Hist. (1714), I. 408. They [Pathagoreans] said that Fire is the Procreative Nutritive and Excitative Power.
1847. R. W. Hamilton, Disq. Sabbath, iv. (1848), 135. Who can say what shall be the growth of holiness … where all is auspicious and excitative?
1881. Nature, XXIV. 208/1. [Paper read] on the thermal laws of the excitative spark of condensers.
