·vt To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
II. Excite ·add. ·vt To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.
III. Excite ·vt To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.