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suscitate, v. Now rare.|ˈsʌsɪteɪt|
Also 6 sussitate, 6–7 suscitat; 6 pa. pple. suscitat(e.
[f. L. suscitāt-, pa. ppl. stem of suscitāre, f. sus- = sub- 26 + citāre to excite (see cite v.).]
trans. To stir up, excite (rebellion, dispute, a feeling, etc.).
1528Impeachm. Wolsey 140 in Furniv. Ballads fr. MSS. I. 356 Þou haste suscitate suche A wonderfull dyssencion. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. iii. (1883) II. 26 That they which do eate or drinke..may sussitate some disputation or reasonynge. Ibid. iii. xxvi. 414 He shall..suscitate or raise the courage of all men inclined to vertue. 1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 298 The disturbance and rebellion suscitate by the said persons. 1557Edgeworth Serm. 73 When the Germaynes suscitated and raysed vp all maner of heresies by Luther and that rable. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 12 b/1 We apply the boxes to suscitate the menstrualles of woemen. a1631Donne Serm., 1 Thess. v. 16 (1649) II. 471 Such a joy a man must suscitate and awaken in himselfe. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xlv. 368 By the approved Doctrine of the ancient Philosophers,..such a brangling Agitation..should..be judged to..be quickned and suscitated by the..Inspiration of the Prophetizing..Spirit. 1876World V. No. 108. 18, I am not..wantonly suscitating one more unsatisfied curiosity by proclaiming one more unfathomable mystery. 1893Scribner's Mag. XIII. 343/1 Suggestions that the soul of inanimate things can..suscitate in the realms of psychological revery.
b. To raise (a person) out of inactivity; to exalt the condition of.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. *vj, As one erectede and suscitatede out of a swound. 1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 24 Masaniello..began more then ever by sound of Drum to suscitat the peeple. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. v. 90 It is Action that God doth suscitate the Soul to. 1876J. Ellis Cæsar in Egypt 158 Thou that dost..Subdue the stern, and suscitate the meek.
†c. To call into being or activity, ‘raise up’.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 824/1 A prophet..shal your Lord god suscitate and reyse vp for you. 1657North's Plutarch, Constantine Gt. 3 The enemy of mankinde..did suscitate and stir up the Heretick Arius. 1885M. E. Martin tr. Lasserre's Mirac. Episodes Lourdes 356 The obstacles suscitated by the Evil One.
†d. To promote (an action at law). Only in pa. pple. Sc. Obs.
1560in Maitl. Club Misc. III. 223 The caus being suscitate at the actes in presence of parties to preif as said is in the actioun be Williame. 1562Ibid. 304 The..caus of diuorce..being suscitat at desyr of Archebald in presens of Anne.
e. To impart life or activity to; to quicken, vivify, animate. ? Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vii. 308 The Sunne [in Ireland] onely suscitates those formes, whose determinations are seminall. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. iii. 632 And human atoms suscitate the sky. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 148 Soul so suscitates his frame With quicker spark celestial.
Hence ˈsuscitated, ˈsuscitating ppl. adjs.
1811Shelley St. Irvyne Prose Wks. 1888 I. 218 Wildered by the suscitated energies of his soul almost to madness. 1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 202 The suscitating juices with which the occidental luxury is presented to us. |