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

The image results from a partial cerebral excitement, which sensation results from an excitement which also acts upon the peripheral sensory nerves, and corresponds to an external object—an excitant which the image does not possess.

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

Can this be the same fennel which "is one of our most grateful aromatics," and which, because of "the absence of any highly excitant property," is recommended for mixing with unpleasant medicines?

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)

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