dejecter

English

Etymology

deject (“cast down”) +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/

Noun

dejecter (plural dejecters)

1. (obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes.
   • 1631, “The illustration to the Frontispiece”, in Richard Berkeley, The Felicitie of Man, or, his Summum Bonum:

     The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.

   • 1664, Jan Baptist van Helmont, translated by J. C., Van Helmont’s Workes, […], page 362:

     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.

   • 1896 June 4, “Sanitary”, in The Independent, volume 48, number 2479, page 16 (756):

     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.

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