Meaning of suscitability | Babel Free

Definitions

The capability of being suscitated; excitability.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Svb. This's Heathen Greek, to you? And, what's your Mercury? Fac. A very Fugitiue, he will be gone, Sir. Svb. How know you him? Fac. By his viſcoſitie, His oleoſitie, and his ſuſcitabilitie.”

“Neither suscitability of the still-born infant or the resuscitability of the seemingly dead adult require proof to substantiate their possibility. With life extinguished neither operation has any concern, […]”

“One reader writes to say that students of English “will smile at your suscitability over ‘argy-bargy,’ quite common in the piquant argot of Scotland and North England.” We apologize for our suscitability.”

“I particularly like the word “suscitate” in connection with teaching and directing. The most fundamental aspect of human movement, breath, is carried on the tongue of suscitate. […] The students’ job is to cultivate “suscitability”—the ability to be stirred awake—and to commit fully to their formation.”

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