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

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 Binet, Alfred

The impression on which the act of cognition operates, that impression which is directly produced by the excitant of the nervous system, seems to me, without any doubt, to be of an entirely physical nature.

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

Lord Grantbury had contended that light was a strong excitant.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth