Definitions for excitant

excitant ex·cit·ant

Spelling: [ik-sahyt-nt, ek-si-tuh nt]
IPA: /ɪkˈsaɪt nt, ˈɛk sɪ tənt/

Excitant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in excitant (aceinttx).

Definitions for excitant

noun

  1. Physiology. something that excites; a stimulant.

adjective

  1. exciting; stimulating.

Origin of excitant

1600-10; Latin excitant- (stem of excitāns), present participle of excitāre. See excite, -ant

Examples for excitant

The influence of dreams as an excitant of muscular movement will be hereafter discussed.

Their gestures were lost in the tumult and the darkness; what the crowd did see seemed to act only as an excitant.

What importance can this have, since all the difference depends on the position occupied by the excitant?

Conscientiousness is a sort of moral opium; an excitant in small doses, perhaps, but at bottom a strong narcotic.

At its first creation, like caloric, it was in a latent state, as no excitant as yet had put it in motion.

The magic love-philtre is the excitant in this story of rapture and gloom.

As an excitant emetic; in cases of poisoning by narcotics, &c.

He should be a sedative and an inspiration to the patient, not an irritant or an excitant.

The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.

There was a readiness and suggestibility to respond to rumor or to the least excitant.

Word Value for excitant
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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