dejecter
nounUK /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/
Etymology From deject (“cast down”) + -er.
- The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.1631, “The illustration to the Frontispiece”, in Richard Berkeley, The Felicitie of Man, or, his Summum Bonum:
- 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.1664, Jan Baptist van Helmont, translated by J. C., Van Helmont’s Workes, […], page 362:
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- 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.1896 June 4, “Sanitary”, in The Independent, volume 48, number 2479, page 16 (756):