projicient
English
Noun
projicient (plural projicients)
- (obsolete) Someone or something that launches a projectile.
- 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
- The project separated from the projicient, continueth the motion by vertue impressed on it by the said projicient.
- 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
References
- “projicient” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Latin
Verb
prōjicient
- third-person plural future active indicative of prōjiciō