projicientn.adj.

1645 A. Ross Philos. Touch-stone 23 Wee..find the maine cause of projection to be the qualitie or force of the projicient impressed upon the bodie projected; as, the force of the gun-powder-fire impressed in the bullet, carries it thorow the aire.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iv. ii. 467 The motion begun by the Projicient, and continued by the Projectum.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 10 Though the projicient do so throw it, that it strikes at right angles with the wall.

a1728 T. Weston tr. Galileo Math. Disc. (1730) iii. 245 Can't sometimes a greater, and sometimes a less Impetus, be impressed by the Projicient upon the Project, so that at one time it may be forced one hundred Yards high, at another twenty, or four, or one?

1904 Nature 8 Sept. 465/1 In presence of the arcs of the great projicient receptors and the brain there can be few receptive points in the body the activities of which are totally indifferent to one another.

1927 J. H. Parsons Introd. Theory Perception vii. 143 The projicient senses—vision.., hearing.., and smell—in the head segments provide those sensations which occupy the focus of the perceptual pattern, the field of attention.

1941 Sociometry 4 126 Man's tendency to adjust..to real promises and threats from the environment..was sidetracked by the projective symbolic system which operates through the cerebrum and projicient nervous system.

1954 A.M.A. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 72 472 On the other hand, the admonitions from the group representative are apprehended largely by visual and auditory means; the authority figure is very much more clearly defined by ‘projicient’ modalities, and, we guess, is always clearer to the individual.

a1978 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 1415 He concentrated on the one special projicient sense of right.