English

Noun

projicient ‎(plural projicients)

1. (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

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

Latin

Verb

prōjicient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of prōjiciō