suscitation

English

Etymology

Latin suscitatio: compare French suscitation.

Noun

suscitation (countable and uncountable, plural suscitations)

1. (obsolete) The act of raising or exciting.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     But the Answer to this, is not difficult, viz. That the Point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare Grammatical Use of these Words; (according to which we deny not, but that they sometimes import a mere Suscitation or Production of a thing, without supposing any precedent Destruction of the same;) […]

Anagrams

• scituations