What does excitive mean?
Excitive means (archaic) excited.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic) 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.
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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Excitive means (archaic) excited.
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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 childhood reading.
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