excitant
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Grantbury had contended that light was a strong excitant.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
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
As we see that the quality of the sensation depends on the nerve that is excited, one is inclined to minimise the importance of the excitant.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
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