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/stˈɪmjəlˌeɪtəd/ /stˈɪmjəlˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Stimulate v. t. (past & past part. stimulated; pres. part. stimulating)

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. "To excite and stimulate us thereunto."

(Physiol.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.

Synonyms: To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense.

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Etymology of 'Stimulated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

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— The Adventures of a Forty-niner • Daniel Knower

... elation, in finding a monument of rare beauty; but he is never subjected to that disappointed irritation which comes when one stands before the "monument" and feels that one's expectations have been unduly stimulated. The Cloister of Beziers is a "fine monument," but as he walked about it, the traveller felt no sense of elation. He found a small Cloister, Gothic like the Cathedral, with clustered columns and little ornamentation. ...

— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose

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— The Old Northwest - A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond, Volume 19 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Frederic Austin Ogg

... them, dayly afflicting and persecuting them, that they might not have so much time and leasure at their own disposal, as to attend their Preaching and Divine Service; for they lookt upon that to be an impediment to their getting Gold, and raking up riches which their Avarice stimulated them so boundlessly to prosecute. Nor do they understand any more of a God, whether he be made of Wood, Brass or Clay, then they did above an hundred years ago, New Spain only exempted, which is a small part of America, and was visited and instructed by the Religious. Thus they did formely ...

— A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies • Bartolome de las Casas

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