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Exhilarate   Listen
verb
Exhilarate  v. t.  (past & past part. exhilarated; pres. part. exilarating)  To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.






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"Exhilarate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Horace and his friends, it is right to observe that connoisseurship in wine must not be confounded with inebriety. They drank to exhilarate, not to stupefy themselves, to make them what Mr. Bradwardine called ebrioli not ebrii; and he repeatedly warns against excess. The vine was to him "a sacred tree," its god, Bacchus, a gentle, ...
— Horace • William Tuckwell

... plenteous supplies are promptly available, a convenience which does not infallibly come to either guns or rifles of the attack. The Germans report as their experience in the capacity of assailants that the rapidity and excitement of the advance, the stir of strife, the turmoil, exhilarate the soldiers, and that patriotism and fire-discipline in combination enforce a cool steady maintenance of fire; that in view of the ominous spectacle of the swift and confident advance, under torture ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes



Words linked to "Exhilarate" :   elate, inebriate, beatify, intoxicate, pick up, exhilaration, lift up



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