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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