dejecter

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UK/dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/

noun

Something that casts down or diminishes.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noundejecter (plural dejecters)

plural dejecters

  1. 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 Bonum
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    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 362

    This 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

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APA

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