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unexˈcited, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not mentally stirred or moved.
1735Ld. Lyttelton Lett. fr. Persian in Eng. iii, The human brutes, who, unexcited by any rage or sense of injury, could spill the blood of others. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ix. (1857) 133 Remember Him pausing to weep.., unexcited, while the giddy crowd around Him were shouting ‘Hosannas to the Son of David!’ 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xvii. 202 A more unexcited inspection showed us..that their numbers were not as great.
2. Not affected by outward influence.
1746Phil. Trans. XLIV. 734 There is an Endeavour by the nearest unexcited Non-electric to restore the æquilibrium. 1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. 399 To produce upon an unexcited eye the sensation of a colour corresponding to that of the wafer. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 26 [Protestantism] sprung up spontaneously, unguided, unexcited,..among the masses of the nation. |