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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“Et c’est quelque chose d’extraordinairement excitant pour moi.”
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.
From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick
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
The impression on which the act of cognition operates, that impression which is directly produced by the excitant of the nervous system, seems to me, without any doubt, to be of an entirely physical nature.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
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