ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not mentally stirred or moved.
1735. Ld. Lyttelton, Lett. fr. Persian in Eng., iii. The human brutes, who, unexcited by any rage or sense of injury, could spill the blood of others.
1850. Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. ix. (1857), 133. Remember Him pausing to weep…, unexcited, while the giddy crowd around Him were shouting ‘Hosannas to the Son of David!’
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xvii. 202. A more unexcited inspection showed us … that their numbers were not as great.
2. Not affected by outward influence.
1746. Phil. Trans., XLIV. 734. There is an Endeavour by the nearest unexcited Non-electric to restore the Æquilibrium.
1839. G. Bird, Nat. Philos., 399. To produce upon an unexcited eye the sensation of a colour corresponding to that of the wafer.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., II. 26. [Protestantism] sprung up spontaneously, unguided, unexcited,… among the masses of the nation.
