accite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əkˈsaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt

Verb

accite (third-person singular simple present accites, present participle acciting, simple past and past participle accited) (Early Modern)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To summon.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     He by the senate is accit'd home
     From weary wars against the barbarous Goths

   • 1598, George Chapman, verse translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 11:

     Our heralds now accited all that were

     Endamag'd by the Elians ...

2. (transitive, obsolete) To cite, quote.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To excite, to induce.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?

Anagrams

• acetic

Latin

Verb

accīte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of acciō