exciteful

English

Etymology

From excite +‎ -ful.

Adjective

exciteful (comparative more exciteful, superlative most exciteful)

1. (archaic) Full of excitement; exciting

   an exciteful story

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Stern Pluto and Persephoné, apply Exciteful pray'rs.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “exciteful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.