stimulancy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The quality of being stimulating.

   • Let then its comparative merits and demerits, in respect of style and stimulancy, possess a proportional weight, and no more, in determining your judgment for or against its contents.
   • And if the water offered to us has been as fresh as the wit, and the wine as old and rich as the recollections, then recollections and wit have had especial charm and stimulancy.
   • It would be well if his already over-wrought stimulancy could be somewhat tranquillized and enriched by the languor and sluggishness of the tropics.
2. 2

   The act of stimulating

   The act of stimulating; stimulation.

   • I conceive extemporaneous worship has hitherto prevailed, because the appetite for devotion has needed the stimulancy of human passion and social excitement.
   • Unquestionably the first step in this direction was made by Dr. Priestley, of Birmingham, who observed that oxygen gas was given off by plants when under the active stimulancy of sunlight.

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