What is "excites"

Usage examples of "excites".

I remained seated on the stairs for a quarter of an hour after she had left me, amused at the funny character of a scene which even now excites my mirth.

We thus see that a short immersion in water does not at all injure the leaves, but sometimes excites the lobes to close.

Our friend excites my passion by the flattering opinion that he entertains of you.

This substance, therefore, like fibrin, excites the leaves for only a short time.

We have seen that a decoction of cabbageleaves excites the most powerful inflection.

It not only soon excites the tentacles to bend, but apparently renders the glands sensitive to a touch, which by itself does not cause any movement.

I find it stated by several writers that curare has no influence on sarcode or protoplasm, and we have seen that, though curare excites some degree of inflection, it causes very little aggregation of the protoplasm.

On the other hand, with Dionaea, touching the filaments excites incomparably quicker movement than the absorption of animal matter by the glands.

A gland of Drosera may be forcibly hit once, twice, or even thrice, without any effect being produced, whilst the continued pressure of an extremely minute particle excites movement.

Dionaea the absorption of nitrogenous matter causes the lobes to press together with extreme slowness, whilst a touch excites rapid movement.

The pressure from fragments of glass excites movement almost as quickly as the absorption of nitrogenous matter, but the degree of incurvation thus caused is much less.

Gluten, therefore, excites the glands greatly, but is dissolved with much difficulty, exactly as in the case of Drosera.

However, as far as Ali is concerned, I can assure you, the interest he excites is merely from the circumstance of his being your attendant -- you, who are at this moment the most celebrated and fashionable person in Paris.