excitant

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

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

Uses.—The rue of the European, American and Indian pharmacopœias is emmenagogue, antispasmodic, anthelmintic, excitant, diaphoretic, antiseptic and abortive.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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 Binet, Alfred