excitant
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Alfred Binet
Ergot of rye not a good uterine excitant to the bitch, 365.
From The Dog by Dinks
On first analysis I discovered an indifferent but true incident where amyl played a part as the excitant of the dream.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
The energizing influence of an emotional excitant was shown at Halifax in the remarkable way in which sick soldiers abandoned their beds and turned them over to the victims rushed to the military hospitals.
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince
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