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

Fibers that convey excitant impulses to the heart to quicken its movements. b.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

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

The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.

From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick