a. [f. EXCITE v. + -IVE.] Tending to excite. Const. of.

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1774.  N. Wraxall, Lett., in Tour North. Europe (1776), 164. A sight rather excitive of disgust than desire.

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1862.  Burton, Bk.-Hunter, 51. The least excitive of the bad passions.

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