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

For example, the exposure of a part of the body through a loss of the bed-clothes is a frequent excitant of distressing dreams.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James

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 Thomas, Jerome Beers

When the treatment consists of something that is so strongly excitant of feeling as ice-water, applied directly to the colon, it is easy to understand that suggestion reaches the limit of its possibilities.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)