stimulantadj.n.

/ˈstɪmjʊlənt/

Etymology: < Latin stimulantem, present participle of stimulāre : see stimulate v. Compare French stimulant (18th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), Spanish estimulante, Italian stimolante.

A. adj. Having the property of stimulating.

1. = stimulating adj. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating

stirring1421

movingc1443

provokingc1443

incitative1490

urgent1559

propulsory1585

pricking1592

pulsive1602

incentive1603

incitatory1610

urging1612

animalizing1617

impellent1620

irritant1636

instigative1644

propulsive1648

promptive1653

parastatic1656

exstimulatory1657

impulsory1659

appelling1666

irritative1686

instigating1702

spurring1702

stimulatinga1732

stimulatory1758

impulsive1788

stimulant1803

stimulative1836

exertivea1856

inciting1855

incitant1886

incitive1888

on-driving1927

incitory1941

1803 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 1 18 The adventurers had so much of what was stimulant as well as true to relate.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. vi. 264 This is the celebrated ‘Law of the Forty Sous’; fiercely stimulant to Sansculottism.

1875 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Writ. (1890) IV. 354 Religious canticles stimulant of zeal.

2. Physiology and Medicine.

a. Exciting an organ, or the organism, to increased activity; quickening some vital function or process. Now more commonly expressed by stimulating adj. (sense A. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [adjective] > stimulant

laetificant1638

laetificative1657

stimulating1684

titillatory1763

stimulant1772

1772 W. Falconer Ess. Bath Waters I. 399 Where the effects of the water, particularly the stimulant and astringent, are desired in their full extent.

1772 W. Falconer Ess. Bath Waters I. 399 Yet their stimulant qualities may prove too violent a shock for a tender frame to endure.

1788 J. Brown tr. Elements Med. I. 13 (note) Those who have been accustomed to more stimulant meals.

1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 428 Ammonia is very pungent and acrid,..but when diluted by mixture with common air, agreeably stimulant.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vii. 439 We are now so accustomed to a more stimulant diet in fiction, that few would read it through with pleasure.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 562 Aromatic, Carminative, Stimulant, and Tonic Umbelliferæ.

b. spec. Applied to alcoholic drinks. rare. (Cf. B. 2b.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > stimulating

stimulant1872

1872 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Leviticus x. 8–11 Abstinence from stimulant drinks.

c. Acting as a stimulus (see stimulus n. 3); exciting the functional activity of an organ. (Cf. B. 2c) rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [adjective]

inflammatory1733

stimulant1785

irritative1796

stimulating1840

excitatory1874

pressor1890

reafferent1956

stimulatory1968

1785 W. Cullen Inst. Med. (ed. 3) i. 66 Whatever can excite the contraction of muscular fibres is called a Stimulus; and in general, the means of exciting contraction are called Stimulant Powers.

1788 J. Brown tr. Elements Med. I. 6 The same exciting powers..ought to be denominated stimulant, or stimuli.

B. n. Something that stimulates.

1. Something that rouses or incites to action; an incentive, a stimulus. Now rare except with some figurative notion of sense A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates

prickleOE

pritchOE

alighting1340

brodc1375

bellowsc1386

pricka1387

motivec1390

prompting1402

preparativec1450

stirmentc1460

incentive?a1475

fomenta1500

farda1522

instigation1526

pointing1533

swinge1548

spur1551

whetstone1551

goad1567

promptitude1578

alarm1587

inducement1593

solicitor1594

incitement1596

inflammation1597

instance1597

excitement1604

moving spirit1604

heart-blood1606

inflamer1609

rouser1611

stimulator1614

motioner1616

incensivea1618

incitative1620

incitation1622

whettera1625

impulsivea1628

excitation1628

incendiary1628

dispositive1629

fomentationa1631

switch1630

stirrer1632

irritament1634

provocative1638

impetus1641

driving force1642

driving power1642

engagement1642

firer1653

propellant1654

fomentary1657

impulse1660

urgency1664

impeller1686

fillip1699

shove1724

incitive1736

stimulative1747

bonus1787

stimulus1791

impellent1793

stimulant1794

propulsion1800

instigant1833

propulsive1834

motive power1836

evoker1845

motivity1857

afflatus1865

flip1881

urge1882

agent provocateur1888

will to power1896

a shot in the arm1922

motivator1929

driver1971

co-driver1993

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 30 A powerful stimulant to others, to employ their invention and ability.

1847 G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke I. 354 The pecuniary remuneration in every office of this kind is the direct and immediate stimulant to exertion and enterprise.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 283 Even now the stimulants which he applied to his torpid and feeble party produced some faint symptoms of returning animation.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life ii. i. 44 The three intellectual pursuits—literature, science, and the fine arts—are all of them strong stimulants.

a. Physiology and Medicine. Something that temporarily quickens some vital process, or the function of some organ; a stimulant agent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates

spice?c1225

comfort1377

refresherc1450

refreshment1532

reviver1542

sauce1561

salt1579

refocillation1608

whettera1625

fillip1699

stimulant1728

stimulation1733

yeast1769

stimulus1791

inspiriter1821

stimulatory1821

refreshener1824

boost1825

bracer1826

young blood1830

freshener1838

invigoratorc1842

blow1849

tonic1849

elevation1850

stimulator1851

breather1876

pick-me-up1876

a shot in the arm1922

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > stimulant

stimulant1728

stimulative1808

stimulatory1821

excitant1833

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Stimulating Stimulants produce Pain, Heat, Redness, &c.

1772 W. Falconer Ess. Bath Waters I. 338 The Bath Waters are in general indicated as stimulants, in cases of languid motion.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 268 In disorders of an inflammatory nature, electricity, as it is a stimulant, should not be resorted to.

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vi. 154 Diffusible or General Stimulants... Such..stimulating remedies as do not appear to act..on a particular organ, but the exciting action of which is equally felt throughout the whole economy.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xiii. 347 The operation of this remarkable stimulant [nitrous oxide].

1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 148 Pepper is a warm carminative stimulant.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 114 Cardiac stimulants..increase the..force of the circulation.

1882 Edison in A. A. Reade Study & Stimulants (1883) 45 When so engaged I almost invariably chew tobacco as a stimulant.

1882 A. J. Ellis in A. A. Reade Study & Stimulants (1883) 46 I never took tobacco in any shape or form. For twenty-five years I have taken no sort of stimulant, not even tea or coffee.

1885 Dr. Ranney in Harper's Mag. Mar. 641/2 The abuse of stimulants, in the form of alcohol, tobacco, tea, and coffee.

b. spec. Applied to alcoholic drinks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]

drink1042

liquor1340

bousea1350

cidera1382

dwale1393

sicera1400

barrelc1400

strong drinkc1405

watera1475

swig1548

tipple1581

amber1598

tickle-brain1598

malt pie1599

swill1602

spicket1615

lap1618

John Barleycornc1625

pottle1632

upsy Englisha1640

upsy Friese1648

tipplage1653

heartsease1668

fuddle1680

rosin1691

tea1693

suck1699

guzzlea1704

alcohol1742

the right stuff1748

intoxicant1757

lush1790

tear-brain1796

demon1799

rum1799

poison1805

fogram1808

swizzle1813

gatter1818

wine(s) and spirit(s)1819

mother's milkc1821

skink1823

alcoholics1832

jough1834

alky1844

waipiro1845

medicine1847

stimulant1848

booze1859

tiddly1859

neck oil1860

lotion1864

shrab1867

nose paint1880

fixing1882

wet1894

rabbit1895

shicker1900

jollop1920

mule1920

giggle-water1929

rookus juice1929

River Ouse1931

juice1932

lunatic soup1933

wallop1933

skimish1936

sauce1940

turps1945

grog1946

joy juice1960

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. v. vi. 425 Among luxuries of general consumption, taxation should by preference attach itself to stimulants.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 180 To tax stimulants for the sole purpose of making them more difficult to be obtained, is a measure differing only in degree from their entire prohibition.

1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxi. 427 The..craving for stimulants.

1899 A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson I. i. 10 In one of his many serious illnesses he refused all stimulants.

c. Something that excites an organ to its functional activity. (Cf. A. 2b) rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [noun] > stimulus

stimulus1793

irritant1802

stimulant1880

cue1931

zeitgeber1958

1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish iii. 116 Sonorous vibrations..act as the stimulants of a special nerve.

Derivatives

ˈstimulantly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [adverb]

stirringly1382

rousingly1653

animatingly1778

electrically1786

stimulantly1814

thrillinglya1822

excitingly1860

hair-raisingly1906

1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 75 161 Such sayings..when stimulantly expressed, are easily remembered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stimulant
释义	stimulantadj.n. /ˈstɪmjʊlənt/ Etymology: < Latin stimulantem, present participle of stimulāre : see stimulate v. Compare French stimulant (18th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), Spanish estimulante, Italian stimolante. A. adj. Having the property of stimulating. 1. = stimulating adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating stirring1421 movingc1443 provokingc1443 incitative1490 urgent1559 propulsory1585 pricking1592 pulsive1602 incentive1603 incitatory1610 urging1612 animalizing1617 impellent1620 irritant1636 instigative1644 propulsive1648 promptive1653 parastatic1656 exstimulatory1657 impulsory1659 appelling1666 irritative1686 instigating1702 spurring1702 stimulatinga1732 stimulatory1758 impulsive1788 stimulant1803 stimulative1836 exertivea1856 inciting1855 incitant1886 incitive1888 on-driving1927 incitory1941 1803 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 1 18 The adventurers had so much of what was stimulant as well as true to relate. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. vi. 264 This is the celebrated ‘Law of the Forty Sous’; fiercely stimulant to Sansculottism. 1875 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Writ. (1890) IV. 354 Religious canticles stimulant of zeal. 2. Physiology and Medicine. a. Exciting an organ, or the organism, to increased activity; quickening some vital function or process. Now more commonly expressed by stimulating adj. (sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [adjective] > stimulant laetificant1638 laetificative1657 stimulating1684 titillatory1763 stimulant1772 1772 W. Falconer Ess. Bath Waters I. 399 Where the effects of the water, particularly the stimulant and astringent, are desired in their full extent. 1772 W. Falconer Ess. Bath Waters I. 399 Yet their stimulant qualities may prove too violent a shock for a tender frame to endure. 1788 J. Brown tr. Elements Med. I. 13 (note) Those who have been accustomed to more stimulant meals. 1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 428 Ammonia is very pungent and acrid,..but when diluted by mixture with common air, agreeably stimulant. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vii. 439 We are now so accustomed to a more stimulant diet in fiction, that few would read it through with pleasure. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 562 Aromatic, Carminative, Stimulant, and Tonic Umbelliferæ. b. spec. Applied to alcoholic drinks. rare. (Cf. B. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > stimulating stimulant1872 1872 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Leviticus x. 8–11 Abstinence from stimulant drinks. c. Acting as a stimulus (see stimulus n. 3); exciting the functional activity of an organ. (Cf. B. 2c) rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [adjective] inflammatory1733 stimulant1785 irritative1796 stimulating1840 excitatory1874 pressor1890 reafferent1956 stimulatory1968 1785 W. Cullen Inst. Med. (ed. 3) i. 66 Whatever can excite the contraction of muscular fibres is called a Stimulus; and in general, the means of exciting contraction are called Stimulant Powers. 1788 J. Brown tr. Elements Med. I. 6 The same exciting powers..ought to be denominated stimulant, or stimuli. B. n. Something that stimulates. 1. Something that rouses or incites to action; an incentive, a stimulus. Now rare except with some figurative notion of sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates prickleOE pritchOE alighting1340 brodc1375 bellowsc1386 pricka1387 motivec1390 prompting1402 preparativec1450 stirmentc1460 incentive?a1475 fomenta1500 farda1522 instigation1526 pointing1533 swinge1548 spur1551 whetstone1551 goad1567 promptitude1578 alarm1587 inducement1593 solicitor1594 incitement1596 inflammation1597 instance1597 excitement1604 moving spirit1604 heart-blood1606 inflamer1609 rouser1611 stimulator1614 motioner1616 incensivea1618 incitative1620 incitation1622 whettera1625 impulsivea1628 excitation1628 incendiary1628 dispositive1629 fomentationa1631 switch1630 stirrer1632 irritament1634 provocative1638 impetus1641 driving force1642 driving power1642 engagement1642 firer1653 propellant1654 fomentary1657 impulse1660 urgency1664 impeller1686 fillip1699 shove1724 incitive1736 stimulative1747 bonus1787 stimulus1791 impellent1793 stimulant1794 propulsion1800 instigant1833 propulsive1834 motive power1836 evoker1845 motivity1857 afflatus1865 flip1881 urge1882 agent provocateur1888 will to power1896 a shot in the arm1922 motivator1929 driver1971 co-driver1993 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 30 A powerful stimulant to others, to employ their invention and ability. 1847 G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke I. 354 The pecuniary remuneration in every office of this kind is the direct and immediate stimulant to exertion and enterprise. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 283 Even now the stimulants which he applied to his torpid and feeble party produced some faint symptoms of returning animation. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life ii. i. 44 The three intellectual pursuits—literature, science, and the fine arts—are all of them strong stimulants. 2. a. Physiology and Medicine. Something that temporarily quickens some vital process, or the function of some organ; a stimulant agent. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates spice?c1225 comfort1377 refresherc1450 refreshment1532 reviver1542 sauce1561 salt1579 refocillation1608 whettera1625 fillip1699 stimulant1728 stimulation1733 yeast1769 stimulus1791 inspiriter1821 stimulatory1821 refreshener1824 boost1825 bracer1826 young blood1830 freshener1838 invigoratorc1842 blow1849 tonic1849 elevation1850 stimulator1851 breather1876 pick-me-up1876 a shot in the arm1922 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > stimulant stimulant1728 stimulative1808 stimulatory1821 excitant1833 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Stimulating Stimulants produce Pain, Heat, Redness, &c. 1772 W. Falconer Ess. Bath Waters I. 338 The Bath Waters are in general indicated as stimulants, in cases of languid motion. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 268 In disorders of an inflammatory nature, electricity, as it is a stimulant, should not be resorted to. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vi. 154 Diffusible or General Stimulants... Such..stimulating remedies as do not appear to act..on a particular organ, but the exciting action of which is equally felt throughout the whole economy. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xiii. 347 The operation of this remarkable stimulant [nitrous oxide]. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 148 Pepper is a warm carminative stimulant. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 114 Cardiac stimulants..increase the..force of the circulation. 1882 Edison in A. A. Reade Study & Stimulants (1883) 45 When so engaged I almost invariably chew tobacco as a stimulant. 1882 A. J. Ellis in A. A. Reade Study & Stimulants (1883) 46 I never took tobacco in any shape or form. For twenty-five years I have taken no sort of stimulant, not even tea or coffee. 1885 Dr. Ranney in Harper's Mag. Mar. 641/2 The abuse of stimulants, in the form of alcohol, tobacco, tea, and coffee. b. spec. Applied to alcoholic drinks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. v. vi. 425 Among luxuries of general consumption, taxation should by preference attach itself to stimulants. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 180 To tax stimulants for the sole purpose of making them more difficult to be obtained, is a measure differing only in degree from their entire prohibition. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxi. 427 The..craving for stimulants. 1899 A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson I. i. 10 In one of his many serious illnesses he refused all stimulants. c. Something that excites an organ to its functional activity. (Cf. A. 2b) rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [noun] > stimulus stimulus1793 irritant1802 stimulant1880 cue1931 zeitgeber1958 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish iii. 116 Sonorous vibrations..act as the stimulants of a special nerve. Derivatives ˈstimulantly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [adverb] stirringly1382 rousingly1653 animatingly1778 electrically1786 stimulantly1814 thrillinglya1822 excitingly1860 hair-raisingly1906 1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 75 161 Such sayings..when stimulantly expressed, are easily remembered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1728
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