单词 | stimulancy |
释义 | stimulancyn. Now rare. Stimulating quality. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > quickening impulse > stimulating quality stimulancy1799 stimulance1856 1799 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 311 Hexameters..are less favourable to..the highest stimulancy of style, than blank verse. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 3 The narrow-minded bigotry which sets up either Madeira or Sherry at the expense of the other's ancestral stimulancy. 1831 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. (new ed.) To Rdr. Let then its comparative merits and demerits, in respect of style and stimulancy possess a proportional weight. 1851 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) 175 Recollections and wit have had especial charm and stimulancy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1799 |
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