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alterant, a. and n.|ˈɔːltərənt|
[a. Fr. altérant pr. pple. of altérer to alter.]
A. adj. Producing alteration or change.
1626Bacon Sylva §800 Whether the Body be Alterant, or Altered, evermore a Perception preceedeth Operation. 1879Whitney Sansk. Gram. 57 The vowels that cause the alteration of s to ṣ may be called..‘alterant’ vowels.
B. n.
1. Anything which alters, or changes the state of another.
1750Leonardus's Mirr. Stones 41 Both from the water and the sun, and from extrinsic alterants. 1879G. Gladstone in Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 76 Importance of mordants consists in their so fixing the colours..and that of alterants in their bringing out or changing the tint.
†2. spec. An alterative medicine. Obs.
17..Quincy in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 75 We frequently meet with..many of this sort mention'd, as Alterants. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) II. vi. 221 Then Vomits, Purgatives, and proper Alterants take place. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Alterants are supposed to exert their power chiefly on the humours of the body. |