Word Meanings - EXAGITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To stir up; to agitate. Arbuthnot. 2. To satirize; to censure severely. Hooker.

AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
CENSURER
One who censures. Sha.
CENSURE
1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
SATIRIZE
To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.
AGITATEDLY
In an agitated manner.
HOOKER
1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram.
OVERAGITATE
To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
MISCENSURE
To misjudge. Daniel. -- n.
FLAGITATE
To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. Carcyle.
LICENSURE
A licensing.
EXAGITATE
1. To stir up; to agitate. Arbuthnot. 2. To satirize; to censure severely. Hooker.
CIRCUMAGITATE
To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor.