Defn: The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. [Obs.] "The concitation of humors." Sir T. Browne.
CONCITE
Con*cite", v. t. Etym: [L. concitare; con- + citare. See Cite.]
Defn: To excite or stir up. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
CONCLAMATION
Con`cla*ma"tion, n. Etym: [L. conclamatio.]
Defn: An outcry or shout of many together. [R.]
Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan).
CONCLAVE Con"clave ( or ; 277), n. Etym: [F., fr. L. conclave a room that may locked up; con- + clavis key. See Clavicle.]
1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.
3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; — said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.
CONCLAVIST
Con"cla`vist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. conclaviste, It. conclavista.]