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

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 immediate excitant of his unrest was found in the college students, who passed his place of business at all hours of the day.

From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various