excitability (eksitabiliti)

[F. excita bilité Sp. excitabilidad = Pg. excitabilidade = It. eccitabilità; as excitable + -ity.] 1. The quality of being excitable; readine or pronene to be provoked or moved into action; the quality of being easily agitated; nervousne . This early excitability prepared his mind for the religious sentiment that afterwards became so powerfully dominant. L. Horner, tr. of Villari's Savonarola, i. 2. 2. In physiol ., irritability. Nerves during regeneration may fail to show excitability to electrical stimulus, yet be capable of transmitting sensory or motor impulses. Buck's Handbook of Med . Sciences , V. 142. excitable (ek-si'ta-bl), a . [= F. excitable = Sp. excitable = Pg. excitavel; as excite + -able.] Susceptible of or prone to excitement; capable of being excited; easily stirred up or stimulated: as, an excitable temperament. 2056 His affections were most quick and excitable by their due objects. Barrow, Works, L. 575. =Syn. Pa ionate, choleric, hasty, hot. excitant (ek-si'tant), a. and n. [L. excitan (t-)s, ppr. of excitare, excite: see excite.] I. a. Tending to excite; exciting. The donation of heavenly graces, prevenient, subsequent, excitant , adjuvant. Bp . Nicholson, Expos. of Catechism, p. 60. II. n. That which excites or rouses to action exclaim The degree to which a gland is excited can be measured only by the number of the surrounding tentacles which are inflected, and by the amount and rate of their movement. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 233. 3. To impel by incentives or motives; instigate; incite: as, to excite the people to revolt. Beaten for loyalty Excited me to treason. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. The remarkable smoothne of that Language [Malay], I confe , might excite some people to learn it out of curiosity: but the Tonquinese are not so curious. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 59. turb mentally; move: as, he was greatly ex cited by the news. I will excite their minds With more desire to know. Milton , P. L., iv. 522.