Meaning of agitant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who agitates.
2. Obsolete spelling of adjutant.
   alt-of, obsolete
3. A thing that agitates.

Equivalents

Examples

“1665, Robert Howard, The Committee, Act III, Scene 1, in Five New Plays, London: Henry Herringman, 1692 p. 77, Now am I ready for any Plot; I’ll go find some of these Agitants, and fill up a blank Commission with my Name.”

“Garofalo and Ferri were the foremost agitants for victim compensation in the nineteenth century.”

“If it were up to those two, he said, all political agitants would be locked up in jail.”

“If melancholy humours most abound, The dreams distractive, and the sleep unsound, And Hypochondriac megrims start and twitch, Black spirits rise, and temptingly bewitch, Ten drops of poppy nectar, freshly pressed, Will lay the peccant agitants at rest.”

“[…] the enormous effect of the insurrection on the government—the hasty executions, the deportations, the inpouring of troops into Ireland and the establishment of military tribunals—convinced Ireland that insurrection was a powerful agitant, and this greatly invigorated the national will.”

“[…] he also promised that the convention would take a stand on the Vietnam conflict, which was such an agitant for young people—in Germany as in the United States—waving Viet Cong flags and shouting, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh!””

“Metabolic agitants, such as caffeine and coca”

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