percutient

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adjective

Striking; having the power of striking or hitting.

OriginLatin percutiens →
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Meanings

adjectivepercutient (comparative more percutient, superlative most percutient)

comparative more percutient · superlative most percutient

  1. archaicStriking; having the power of striking or hitting.
nounpercutient (plural percutients)

plural percutients

  1. archaicThat which has the power of striking.

    Therefore proceeding upon our grounds before layed; to wit, that no body can be moved of it self; we may determine those motions to be naturall unto bodies which have constant causes, or percutients to make them alwayes in such bodies: […]

    1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinpercutiens
  2. Englishpercutient

From Latin percutiens. See percuss.

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APA

percutient. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percutient

MLA

“percutient.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percutient. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “percutient,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percutient.

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