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

It is a powerful excitant in fainting, languor, and headache.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

It is, however, probable that the Address to the people, issued by Mr. Chase and his Free-soil friends in the latter part of January, furnished the necessary excitant.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William

To sum up, in addition to the natural excitant of our sensory nerves, there are two which can produce the same sensory effects, that is to say, the mechanical and the electrical excitants.

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