Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To rouse; excite; call into life and action.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.

Etymologies

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Latin suscitatus, past participle of suscitare to lift up, to rouse; prefix sub- + citare to rouse, excite. Compare excite, incite, and resuscitate.

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Examples

  • A seguito delle reazioni suscitate dal recente Decreto della Congregazione per i Vescovi, con cui si rimette la scomunica ai quattro Presuli della Fraternità San Pio X, e in relazione alle dichiarazioni negazioniste o riduzioniste della Shoah da parte del Vescovo Williamson della medesima Fraternità, si ritiene opportuno chiarire alcuni aspetti della vicenda.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Every word can suscitate in someone, you know, different type of emotions.

    Afro-French 'Echos' from Les Nubians 2005

  • The Emperor has come back! "cried the young devotee with that extraordinary fervour which Napoleon alone -- of all men that have ever walked upon this earth -- was able to suscitate:" his Imperial eagles once more soar over France carrying on their wings her honour and glory to the outermost corners of Europe.

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • But the Emperor, instead of being, as he might have been, the lord and leader of the Crusades, which he had himself aided in no inconsiderable degree to suscitate by his embassies to the Pope, became the slave of men who hated and despised him.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

  • But the emperor, instead of being, as he might have been, the lord and leader of the Crusades, which he had himself aided in no inconsiderable degree to suscitate by his embassies to the Pope, became the slave of men who hated and despised him.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

  • L'eco delle polemiche suscitate dalla decisione di sospendere dal primo gennaio di quest'anno la ritrasmissione di Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty sulle frequenze FM interne all'Azerbaidjian, ha fatto molta strada nei media occidentali.

    Radiopassioni 2009

  • “I have been thinking of a project for you and me, in case we both get to London again, which (if a Neapolitan war don't suscitate) may be calculated as possible for one of us about the spring of

    Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854

  • "I have been thinking of a project for you and me, in case we both get to London again, which (if a Neapolitan war don't suscitate) may be calculated as possible for one of us about the spring of

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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