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Excitant

noun
1.
A drug that temporarily quickens some vital process.  Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug.





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"Excitant" Quotes from Famous Books



... be called a sedative than a narcotic. Opium, the type of the latter class, is in its primary action excitant, but secondarily narcotic. The opium-eaters are familiar with this, and learn by experience to regulate the dose so as to prolong the first and shorten the second effects, as much ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various
... habeo, milites, verba virtutem non addere, neque ex ignavo strenuum neque fortem ex timido exercitum oratione imperatoris fieri. Quanta cujusque animo audacia natura aut moribus inest, tanta in bello patere solet. Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.[327] Sed ego vos, quo pauca monerem, advocavi; simul uti causam mei consilii aperirem. Scitis equidem, milites, socordia atque ignavia Lentuli quantam ipsi nobisque cladem ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)


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