Meaning of dejecter | Babel Free

Definitions

Something that casts down or diminishes.

obsolete, rare

Examples

“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.”

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