dejecter
Pronunciations
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/dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
Something that casts down or diminishes.
Usage- Obsolete
- Rare
- Examples
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The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.
More examples (1)
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.
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.
Word forms
dejecters