alterers

But we do know -- I think we can all agree -- there is a drug crisis in America right now, and it ` s not illegal drugs as much as it is legal prescription drugs that are being used as mood alterers to self-medicate.

CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010 2010

The hippie dream promised a utopian paradise of open minds, plentiful mood alterers, copious nudity, a universal ban on the harshing of mellows, and government-imposed universal body painting.

My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

Still, I'd jump on this a lot sooner than I'd jump on one of the various crap-shoot-in-a-pill mind alterers out there, even if some actually do work some of the time.

Musings of a Drunken Monk: Depression treated without drugs? 2005

So at the board's April 22 public meeting-five short days before an entrepreneurial young N.Y.U. coed was arrested for allegedly peddling a cocktail of mood-alterers all over Board 2's turf-the parks committee presented its marijuana resolution to the full board for a vote.

Community Boards 2004

What then is the evidence these Bible-alterers offer to persuade you to give up the precious words they have removed from their version?

Myths About the King James Bible by David Cloud True Scholars Reject the Recieved Text 1986

Barrett was of all alterers the most honest: usually, but not (I fear) always, he tells us the very line in which an alteration occurs.

The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers 1942

The House has ceased to be one of latent directors, and has become one of temporary rejectors and palpable alterers.

The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851

For all speculators, Utopians, alterers of the world, and wanderers from the high road, were equally hateful to him; but he could have hugged the Frenchman at that moment.

Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The public sanctions the use of hundreds of mood alterers, from coffee and aspirin to alcohol and Valium.

Chicago Reader 2010

Generally anti-elitist and anti-authoritarian by declaration, feminist alterers of language find themselves corralled with prescriptive grammarians and linguists.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2 1984