Excitant

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant.

    "Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition."

  2. 2
    a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    exciting; stimulating
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate wordnet

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excitativeexcitativeexcitatoryimpulsespringspur

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"Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition."

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