incitant

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adjective

Inciting; stimulating.

OriginLatin incitans →
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Meanings

adjectiveincitant (comparative more incitant, superlative most incitant)

comparative more incitant · superlative most incitant

  1. Inciting; stimulating.
nounincitant (plural incitants)

plural incitants

  1. That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant.

    The leaves and seeds ought to be classed with the incitants, for they evidently are powerful and diffusible stimulants.

    1786, J. U., C. G. Lloyd, Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica

Origin

  1. Latinincitans
  2. Englishincitant

From Latin incitans.

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Chicago

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