percutient
English
editEtymology
editLatin percutiens. See percuss.
Adjective
editpercutient (comparative more percutient, superlative most percutient)
Noun
editpercutient (plural percutients)
- (archaic) That which has the power of striking.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
- Therefore proceeding upon our grounds before layed; to wit, that no body can be moved of it self; we may determine those motions to be naturall unto bodies which have constant causes, or percutients to make them alwayes in such bodies: […]
Latin
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