percutient

English

Etymology

From Latin percutiens. See percuss.

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.
    • 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 Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:
      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: […]

Latin

Verb

percutient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of percutiō
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