excitive

English

Etymology

excite +‎ -ive

Adjective

excitive (comparative more excitive, superlative most excitive)

1. (archaic) excited
   • 1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology‎^[1]:

     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.

2. Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
   • 1818, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases:

     What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]

Noun

excitive (plural excitives)

1. (archaic) That which excites; an excitant.