excitant
Example Sentences
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is therefore inconceivable that the blood could receive its normal supply of adrenalin with an apathy of the degree seen in stupor unless some purely hypothetically substitutive excitant were found.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
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
It is a powerful excitant in fainting, languor, and headache.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
