Stimulating
['stɪmjʊleɪtɪŋ] or ['stɪmjuletɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) rousing or quickening activity or the senses; 'a stimulating discussion' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stimulate
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Examples
- Plato had an immediate influence in stimulating m athematical studies, and has been called a maker of mathematicians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Wright[61] gives us some very stimulating suggestions here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mersenne was a stimulating and indefatigable correspondent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As every day brought her stimulating emotion, so every night yielded her recreating rest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now the stimulating class are the things which suggest contrast and relation. Plato. The Republic.
- The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such a work would be stimulating to politician and psychologist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Eliza's flight--an unprecedented event on the place--was also a great accessory in stimulating the general excitement. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The furor had its effect in stimulating a desire everywhere on the part of everybody to see and hear the phonograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was too much reason to think that he and Eustacia both were for ever beyond the reach of stimulating perfumes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The action of opium is comprised, in the majority of cases, in two influences--a stimulating influence first, and a sedative influence afterwards. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But he set about acting on his views in a thoroughly diplomatic manner, by stimulating suspicion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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