thymolepticadj.n.
/θʌɪməʊˈlɛptɪk/ Pharmacology.
(Of or pertaining to) a psychic energizer (see psychic adj. 1).
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psychostimulant1961
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thymoleptic1959
psychostimulant1962
1959 New Scientist 31 Dec. 1351/2 So novel are these [psychotherapeutic] drugs that even the scientific terms used to describe their action—ataractic, thymoleptic—have been coined within the past few years.
1959 New Scientist 31 Dec. 1353/1 The psychotherapeutic drugs fall at present into two classes:..the major tranquillizers..and those that relieve psychotic depression—the psychic energizers or thymoleptics.
1967 W. L. L. Rees Short Textbk. Psychiatry xxxii. 281 The tricyclic (thymoleptic) group of anti~depressants are quite dissimilar in chemical structure to the monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
1971 H. B. Murphree in J. R. DiPalma Drill's Pharmacol. in Med. (ed. 4) xxiii. 437/2 A term used in Europe, thymoleptic..has not gained currency in North America.
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