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Excitant

noun
1.
A drug that temporarily quickens some vital process.  Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug.
adjective
1.
(of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate.  Synonyms: excitative, excitatory.






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"Excitant" Quotes from Famous Books



... memory not only the years since his seven-year old feet had crossed this threshold of the New World, but recalling something of his still earlier childhood in his native France. The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... name of a drug which is brought into Aden from the interior, and largely used, especially by the Arabs, as a pleasurable excitant. It is generally imported in small camel-loads, consisting of a number of parcels, each containing about forty slender twigs with the leaves attached, and carefully wrapped so as to prevent as much as possible exposure to the atmosphere. The leaves form the ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton



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