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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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... widespread efforts are being made in the direction of increasing the offensive efficiency of aircraft. It is one of the phases of ingenuity which has been stimulated into activity as a result of ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... substance, the loss being restored by nutrition during the period of repose. This is shown particularly well in the case of the nerve cells (Fig. 13). Both the functional and nutritive activity can be greatly stimulated, but they must balance; otherwise the ...

— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman

... them from windows. This is enough. Nobody believes that the thing would ever have been done; but the lively and repeated discussion of it shows how the feelings of the ignorant are perverted, and the passions of party-men are stimulated in Ireland, when unscrupulous leaders arise, proposing irrational projects. The consequences have been seen in Popish and Protestant fights in Ulster, and in the midnight drill of Phoenix Clubs in Munster, and in John Mitchell's passion for fat negroes in the Slave ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various

... February 20.—Stimulated by a pure Athenian breeze, the Congress passed a law organizing an Academy of Sciences. What a gigantic folly; the only one committed by this Congress. The pressure was very great, and exercised by the bottomless ...

— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski

... protein, is not suitable, because, after a meal, the animal must have a certain feeling of fullness in order to be comfortable and quiet, and the digestive organs require a relatively large volume of contents to fill them to the point where secretion is properly stimulated and their activity is most efficient. If too much protein is in the ration there is a waste of expensive feed, and the tendency is for the animal to become thin. It is evident that a cow can not thrive ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

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