Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Excitant

Excitant , adjective

[Latin excitans, -antis, present participle of excitare: compare French excitant.]

Tending to excite; exciting.

Excitant , noun

(Physiology) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.