Meanings
plural dejecters
- obsoleterareSomething that casts down or diminishes.
The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.
1631, “The illustration to the Frontispiece”, in Richard Berkeley, The Felicitie of Man, or, his Summum Bonum2 more examples
But I found the Errhina or Medicines that purge the Head by the Nostrils […] to be more foolish than these: Likewise solutives or Purgers by Stool, and Bloud-lettings, to be cruel ones; because the dejecters of strength.
1664, Jan Baptist van Helmont, translated by J. C., Van Helmont’s Workes, […], page 362This was forty years before tea had been introduced in England, and water was looked upon as a “dejecter of the appetite,” when taken cool and by itself.
1896 June 4, “Sanitary”, in The Independent, volume 48, number 2479, page 16 (756)
Origin
From deject (“cast down”) + -er.
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