Dejecter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dejecter is a noun meaning (obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes.
Meaning
(obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes.
Example Sentences
The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- dejecters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deject, abjection, depletive, desponder, depletor, dehancement.
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