excitant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of excitant
1600–10; < Latin excitant- (stem of excitāns ), present participle of excitāre. See excite, -ant
Example Sentences
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
What importance can this have, since all the difference depends on the position occupied by the excitant?
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
Can this be the same fennel which "is one of our most grateful aromatics," and which, because of "the absence of any highly excitant property," is recommended for mixing with unpleasant medicines?
From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)
It is a powerful excitant in fainting, languor, and headache.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
Sensation, then, is the phenomenon which is produced and which one experiences when an excitant has just acted on one of our organs of sense.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
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