Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which,
in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and
excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.
1. Causing; causative. 2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we ...