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

It is a powerful excitant in fainting, languor, and headache.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

To sum up, in addition to the natural excitant of our sensory nerves, there are two which can produce the same sensory effects, that is to say, the mechanical and the electrical excitants.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

The last two results, apparently anomalous, are due to the fact, which will be demonstrated later,  that KHO in minute quantities is an excitant, while in large quantities it is a depressant.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir