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.

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

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