Excite
Excite , transitive verb
[Latin excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: compare Old French esciter, exciter, French exciter. See Cite.]
1.
To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
2.
(Physiology) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
3.
(Electricity) To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.
4.
(Physics) To raise to a higher energy level; -- used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.