In a state of extreme excitation she wondered what he could be doing.

Nevertheless Aristotle is answering Plato's objections to unrestrained emotionalism, and by his theory of katharsis endeavors to show not only that the emotional excitation of tragedy is harmless to the spectator, but that it is actually good for him.

BRUNONIAN SYSTEM, a system which regards and treats diseases as due to defective or excessive excitation, as sthenic or asthenic.

From every hand her senses snatched up and conveyed to her innumerable impressions, each of which became a dull excitation to her jaded imagination.

That amber, when rubbed, possesses the property of attracting and repelling light bodies was known to Thales and Pliny, and subsequent philosophers discovered that other substances also were capable of electrical excitation.

And as each of them is itself comprehensive of multitudinous states of consciousness, we may say that this passion fuses into one immense aggregate most of the elementary excitations of which we are capable; and that hence results its irresistible power.

Hence it became necessary if the equilibrium were broken, if the external excitations ceased to be sufficient, for therapeutics to create artificial excitations, in order to reestablish the tonicity which is the state of perfect health.

My feeling was one of glorious excitation in the swift, smooth flight and a grim assurance of soon seeing the old lion.

Marcus was in that half-comatose state which is the stupid reaction from an intense and painful excitation of the nerves.

And even in subsequent scenes, when the recollection of being a performer returned upon her, her inward excitation seemed to float her onward, like a great wave.

He found this mild excitation of the nervous system by no means unpleasant.

All thoughts and feelings become social through the mutual excitation and development of the holiest.

All alone in the room she could feel his hands again on her shoulders: a mysterious excitation....

She must have been, of course, at that time, in a state of abnormal nervous excitation, a state of which another proof was shortly afterwards given.

Dogmas, again, are descriptions of pious excitation, and take their origin in man's reflection on his religious feelings, in his endeavor to explain them, in his expression of them in ideas and words.

By the time that all was over, and they were at the hotel for supper, such was his pleasurable excitation that he was once more playful, teasing, once more the irrepressible.

It also explains the strong effect of the vibrations emanating from the nerve centres controlling the reproductive system, in certain cases of strong sexual excitation.

And it can hardly be questioned that this singular excitation of fermentation in one fluid, by a sort of infection, or inoculation, of a little ferment taken from some other fluid, together with the strange swelling, foaming, and hissing of the fermented substance, must have always attracted attention from the more thoughtful.

In consequence of the acute disturbance of circulation and nutrition an acute intoxication takes place, which may range from a slight excitation to a complete loss of consciousness.

She must have been, of course, at that time, in a state of abnormal nervous excitation, a state of which another proof was shortly afterwards given.

The Greek troops were in far too high a state of spiritual excitation to require food, even if food had been able to keep pace with their lightning advance.

Hence it became necessary if the equilibrium were broken, if the external excitations ceased to be sufficient, for therapeutics to create artificial excitations, in order to reestablish the tonicity which is the state of perfect health.