Excitant

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.' ❋ Alfred Binet (1884)

Fraenaet stimuli animi, velut in mari quaedam aurae leves, quaedam placidae, quaedam turbulentae: sic in corpore quaedam affectiones excitant tantum, quaedam ita movent, ut de statu judicii depellant. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is somewhat tart, I grant it; acriora orexim excitant embammata, as he said, sharp sauces increase appetite, ❋ Unknown (2007)

Obsoleto, intempestivo, turpi remedio fatentur se uti; recordatione pristinarum voluptatum se recreant, et adversante natura, pollinctam carnetn et enectam excitant. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Aden from the interior, and largely used, especially by the Arabs, as a pleasurable excitant. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Joe Marley said that's only Acacia nilotica, which is taken as a digestive excitant and to prevent hunger and thirst on raids. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1998)

They were there, I think, looking for something Olympian—not stars, maybe, but at least beautiful people, and beauty, not fellatio, was to have been the excitant. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1987)

Bill, the effeminate to whom fear was an excitant, spoke with glee from the shadows where he was invisible, but his bed creaked as he bounded up and down on it. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1952)

Can this be the same fennel which "is one of our most grateful aromatics," and which, because of "the absence of any highly excitant property," is recommended for mixing with unpleasant medicines? ❋ M. G. Kains (N/A)

While it is the contact through the sense of touch that acts both as the most natural and most complete expression of love between the sexes and a powerful sexual excitant, there is a contact of the eyes of adolescent and adult lovers, -- a sort of embrace by means of the eyes -- that is as exciting to many as contact through touch. ❋ Sanford Bell (N/A)

Nor could we, with De Quincey, apostrophize to a certain other excitant, "O just, subtle, and mighty opium! thou boldest the keys of Paradise!" ❋ Various (N/A)

Opium, the type of the latter class, is in its primary action excitant, but secondarily narcotic. ❋ Various (N/A)

The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)

Comme l'existence de notre organisme est liée à l'importance attachée aux langues, je pense que son avenir sera excitant et stimulant. ❋ Marie Lebert (N/A)

Less than 0.9 of the excitant principle per cent. of air-dried oats, the dose is insufficient to certainly affect the excitability of horses, but above this proportion the excitant action is certain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Experiments have been recently made by Mr. Sanson with a view to settling the question whether oats have or have not the excitant property that has been attributed to them. ❋ Various (N/A)

Crushing or grinding the grain weakens considerably the excitant property, probably by altering the substance to which it is due; the excitant action is more prompt, but much less strong and durable. ❋ Various (N/A)

While some light-colored oats certainly have considerable excitant power, some dark oats have little. ❋ Various (N/A)