exciting Copy link • exciting: perh. trĕpĭdus (alarmed hence causing alarm): so e. (alarming) a letter, tam t. literae, Curt. 7, 1, ad fin.: Just. (Usu. better expr. by circuml.: to seek e. pleasures, *incitamenta voluptatum quaerere: a most strange and e. adventure, *casus insolitus et qui animum timore, admiratione suspensum teneat.)