excitant
Example Sentences
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 image results from a partial cerebral excitement, which sensation results from an excitement which also acts upon the peripheral sensory nerves, and corresponds to an external object—an excitant which the image does not possess.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
Lord Grantbury had contended that light was a strong excitant.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
I was myself perhaps a more effective excitant; and at least to one old gentleman the spectacle of my successful struggles against sleep—and I hope they were successful—cheered the flight of time.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
