intoxicant

intoxicant
/in tok"si keuhnt/, n.
1. an intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs.
adj.
2. intoxicating or exhilarating: the clear, intoxicant air of the mountains.
[1860-65; < ML intoxicant- (s. of intoxicans), prp. of intoxicare to poison. See IN-2, TOXICANT]

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