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ˈirritament Now rare or Obs.
[ad. L. irritāment-um a provocative, f. irrītāre irritate v.1: see -ment.]
Something that excites or provokes an action, feeling, or state; an exciting cause; a provocative, an incentive; an irritant.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 91 The Irritaments of Despaire. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 5 Perillous irritaments of carnall and spirituall enmity. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 274 There is no specific irritament, which does not prove for the whole constitution either asthenic or sthenic. 1844Gladstone Glean. (1879) III. 27 He was wrong; for the bearing of his argument would have been this; Sacraments are irritaments of faith, therefore baptise those who have it not, in order that they may be aroused to conceive it. |