intoxicant
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Origin of intoxicant
1860–65; < Medieval Latin intoxicant- (stem of intoxicāns ), present participle of intoxicāre to poison. See in- 2, toxicant
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But that just means you have to treat this relationship as an intoxicant vs. nourishment.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021
Buffalo Bill advertised Cody in a Wild West show program, promising air that was “so pure, so sweet and so bracing” that it would act as an intoxicant to city-clogged lungs.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2020
Music is an intoxicant and a revelation, an accompaniment to mourning and to celebration; it bears the marks of both Apollo and Dionysus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2018
Such temptations, along with the dangerous intoxicant that is music, had, he felt, caused the fall of Greece and Rome.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015
Now, cheese on an empty mouse stomach acts as an intoxicant.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
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