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
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 Jerome Beers Thomas
The immediate excitant of his unrest was found in the college students, who passed his place of business at all hours of the day.
From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
If the excitant which provokes it is included in our nervous system, it is the sensation which becomes individual, hidden to all except ourselves, and constituting a microcosm by the side of a macrocosm.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
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 Alfred Binet
