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
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 John William Burgess
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 Alfred Binet
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 Alfred Binet
The impression on which the act of cognition operates, that impression which is directly produced by the excitant of the nervous system, seems to me, without any doubt, to be of an entirely physical nature.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
