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percutient

percutient adjective: striking; having the power of striking or hitting.

Adjective

percutient (comparative more percutient, superlative most percutient)

  1. (archaic) Striking; having the power of striking or hitting.

Noun

percutient (plural percutients)

  1. (archaic) That which has the power of striking.
    • Therefore proceeding upon our grounds before layed; to wit, that no body can be moved of it self; we may determine those motions to be naturall unto bodies which have constant causes, or percutients to make them alwayes in such bodies: […]1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of...

Forms of percutient

Adjective
comparativemore percutient
superlativemost percutient
Noun
pluralpercutients

Origin of percutient

From Latin percutiens. See percuss.

Questions about percutient

What does percutient mean?
Percutient means striking; having the power of striking or hitting.
What part of speech is percutient?
Percutient can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near percutient in the dictionary

  1. percute
  2. percuted
  3. percutes
  4. percuteur
  5. percuteurs
  6. percutient
  7. percutients
  8. percuting
  9. percy
  10. Percy boy
  11. Percy Main

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