SUSCITATION

Etymology

Noun

suscitation (countable and uncountable, plural suscitations)

(obsolete) The act of raising or exciting.

But the Answer to this, is not difficult, viz. That the Point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare Grammatical Use of these Words; (according to which we deny not, but that they sometimes import a mere Suscitation or Production of a thing, without supposing any precedent Destruction of the same;) […]

Source: Wiktionary


Sus`ci*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. suscitatio: cf. F. suscitation.]

Definition: The act of raising or exciting. [R.] A mere suscitation or production of a thing. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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