agitatedadj.

1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Naturall Questions ii. i, in tr. Seneca Wks. 777 The trembling of the earth is caused by the violence of the wind, which is but agitated ayre [L. aer agitatus].

1617 W. Hamond tr. A. Paré Method curing Wounds x. 74 Such wounds at that instant doe send forth but little bloode, because of the great contusion made by the Bullet and the vehemence of the agitated aire.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (civ. 3 Annot.) 516/1 Those agitated clouds, whereby, as with wings, the Angels fly down to us.

1660 J. Dryden Astræa Redux 13 As those Lees that trouble it, refine The agitated Soul of Generous Wine.

1712 J. Quincy tr. S. Santorio Medicina Statica iii. 125 Some Parts of an agitated Fluid may so much obey their attractive Powers, as to induce amongst them the Changes above mention'd.

1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. I. i. i. 7 Phœnicians were the first who dared venture out of the Mediterranean sea..to conflict with the agitated waves of the Bay of Biscay.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. xiv. 206 The solitary clerk no longer found time to answer the often agitated bell.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 172 However agitated the surface of the sea may be.

1919 J. Gregory Bells of San Juan v. 72 Whether or not he knew what it was so guardedly stirring in the patio, whether he, like herself, had merely seen the gently agitated leaves of the bushes, she could not guess.

1999 Canoeist May 41/1 When the canoe entered the agitated water of the rip tide he felt as though he had been thrown into a raging rapid.

1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis To Rdr. sig. C^v Their copious passages..I haue purposely omitted..to encourage learned Readers,..who desire satisfaction in these much agitated and perplexed Controuersies, to reade, yea, studiously to peruse the workes.

1640–4 Order of Commons in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 355 Notes of things brought into the House, Propounded or Agitated in the House.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. i. 17 It is also an agitated Controversie with them, Whether, Whether it be Gods Essence as such which the Creatures are Represented and known in.

1718 I. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie iii. 10 Gregory II..shewed his Parts in the agitated Controversie concerning the Council of Quinisext.

1800 J. Evans Tour N. Wales xi. 285 It is an agitated question, whether this beautiful and profitable tree be or not a native of this island?

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 104 The long agitated scheme for running a railway down the Euphrates valley.

1933 Times 28 Mar. 13/3 It might be disastrous..to throw a new and agitated issue in these delicate discussions.

2010 N. Rescher Autobiography (ed. 2) Pref. p. iii One must address—and perhaps even anticipate—the contemporary ‘hot topics’. To underrate, or, even worse, ignore the currently agitated problems is to invite obscurity and neglect.

1684 tr. F. Hédelin d'Aubignac Whole Art of Stage iii. vii. 55 Interrogation, which Scaliger says is only a Figure by use, and not of its own nature, is likewise the mark of an agitated Mind, and by consequent Theatral.

1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) v. §7. 339 An impassioned countenance, an agitated gesture.

1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. xi. 172 This seemed, to the agitated spirits of Camilla, an inviting opening to her scheme.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 623 He was greatly agitated. The blood left his cheeks.

1883 M. K. Waddington Let. 18 Mar. in Lett. Diplomat's Wife (1903) i. 4 I have had rather an agitated week.

1896 Argosy Feb. 503/2 The next morning she seemed somewhat agitated on the train that was bearing them out to New Hope.

1909 Chatterbox 43/1 An observer noticed a hedge-sparrow fluttering about, very agitated.

1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 26 I met a very agitated forest guard, whose headquarters were at Dabidhura.

2001 J. Wolcott Catsitters xlvi. 298 I was too agitated to sit still.