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excitive
adj 2noun 1
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4ADJ.
common, wrought
VERB + EXCITIVE
denominated
EXCITIVE + NOUN
fever
PREP.
upon
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adj
1
excited
Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading.
2
Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]
noun
1
That which excites; an excitant.
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Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childh
Wiktionary02
What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]
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