excitant

comparative more excitant · superlative most excitant

1. exciting; stimulating

plural excitants

1. Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant.

   Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85