excitant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of excitant
1600–10; < Latin excitant- (stem of excitāns ), present participle of excitāre. See excite, -ant
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Similarly, I suppose that if the nervous vibration resembles so little the excitant which gives it birth, it is because the factor nervous system adds its effect to the factor external object.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
The immediate excitant of his unrest was found in the college students, who passed his place of business at all hours of the day.
From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
For example, the exposure of a part of the body through a loss of the bed-clothes is a frequent excitant of distressing dreams.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
It is therefore inconceivable that the blood could receive its normal supply of adrenalin with an apathy of the degree seen in stupor unless some purely hypothetically substitutive excitant were found.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
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