Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To shake violently; agitate.
  • To pursue with invectives or reproaches; rail at.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To stir up; to agitate.
  • transitive verb obsolete To satirize; to censure severely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To excite, stir up.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the participle stem of Latin exagitāre.

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