If you are exhilarated by something, it makes you feel very happy and excited. He felt strangely exhilarated by the brisk, blue morning. feeling extremely happy, excited, and full of energy (past participle of exhilarare, from hilarus; HILARIOUS)
Many such tricks are ordinarily put in practice by great men, to exhilarate themselves and others, all which are harmless jests, and have their good uses.
fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"