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excitant

noun as in gadfly

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“Et c’est quelque chose d’extraordinairement excitant pour moi.”

Such action may be inhibitory or excitant, according to the views of the one or the other author, without affecting the main question as above stated.

The excitant is a dilute solution of sulphuric acid.

The full udder, under such circumstances, is a powerful excitant to the uterus: this is a well-known fact, and the consequence is, that if this natural excitant be withdrawn, the action of the process at once becomes diminished.

The Ainu are gentle and mild by nature, but, like all ignorant people, they are extremely superstitious, and superstition is a powerful excitant.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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