exagitate means To excite, stir up. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EXAGITATE — [Verb] To excite, stir up, or agitate thoroughly. From the Latin exagitāre, from ex- ("thoroughly") + agitāre ("to set in motion, agitate"). Unlike "agitate," which may denote a surface disturbance, or "incite," which aims at targeted provocation, to exagitate is to churn from the depths, rousing a dormant intensity to a full, simmering froth. It is the polemicist’s rhetoric finding the precise frequency of a crowd’s latent grievance; the historian exhuming a buried scandal until its dust clouds the present; or the single remembered cruelty that stirs the sediment of a quiet heart—the deliberate art of making latent things impossible to ignore.
verb
- To excite, stir up.“the devil many times takes his opportunity of such storms, and when the humours by the air be stirred, he goes in with them, exagitates our spirits, and vexeth our souls […]”