Excitant

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  • adjective. Tending to excite; stimulating.
  • noun. An agent or stimulus that excites; a stimulant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to excite; exciting.
  • noun. That which excites or rouses to action or increased action; specifically, in therapeutics, whatever produces, or is fitted to produce, increased action in any part of a living organism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
  • adjective. Tending to excite; exciting.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. exciting; stimulating
  • noun. Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process
  • adjective. (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate
  • Word Usage
    "It places the physical symptoms of the emotions at the very beginning, and considers them the direct effects of the external excitant, which is expressed by this elegant formula: "It used to be said, 'I perceive a danger; I am frightened, I tremble.'"
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