Excitement

[Fr.] Act of exciting; stimulation; state of being roused into action; agitation; sensation; that which rouses, moves, stirs, or induces to action; commotion. Exciter, n. He or that which excites. Exciting, p . a . Calling or rousing into action; stim- ulating. Excitingly, adv . In an exciting manner. Excitive, n. That which excites. -a. Causing excitement. (R.) Exci'to-mo'tory, a. ( Physiol.) A term applied by some physiologist to the first cla of nervous actions from communion with a church. Excommunication, n. [Fr., from L. Lat. excommu nicatio.] ( Eccl .) Act of excommunicating or ejecting from the Church; expulsion or exclusion from the communion of a Church and deprivation of its rights, privileges, and advantages. It is distinguished by the Roman Cath.writers as greater ( anathema ) or le er ( excommuni catio ): the former entirely cutting off the offender from the body of the Church and the society of the faithful, and being proclaimed only when a sin has been mortal, manifest, and scandalous; the latter prohibiting from participation in the sacraments and in public worship; and being imposed especially upon those who cherish intercourse with anathematized persons. Only the latter E. is in practice among most Protestants, though the Anglican Church recognizes them both. A form of E. used in the Middle Ages, was termed Bell , Book , and Candle. The bell was tolled to summon the people, the sentence read out of a book, and a candle, which the priest held, was thrown upon the ground and extinguished in token of the fate of the delinquent. decortication. (Med.) An abrasion of the cuticle. Excortica'tion, n. [Fr.] A pulling off of the bark; Ex'crement, n. [Lat. excrementum, from excerno , e cretus-ex, and cerno , to separate, to sift. See DISCERN.] The refuse; that which is separated from the nutrimeni by digestion, and discharged from the animal body as being superfluous; fœcal matter; ordure; dung.