What does dejecter mean?
Dejecter means (obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes..
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/dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/ · noun
(obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes..
The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.
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.
Use dejecter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dejecter means (obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.
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