Having the quality or power of exciting, stimulating, or arousing.
Formed from 'excitate' or Latin 'excitare' with the suffix '-ive,' which indicates a quality or tendency. The suffix '-ive' comes from Latin and denotes characteristic or capacity.
This adjective is rarely used in modern English, replaced mostly by 'exciting' or 'stimulating,' but it appears in older medical texts describing substances that have 'excitative properties.'
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