extimulate

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verb

To stimulate.

OriginLatin extimulatus →
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Meanings

verbextimulate (third-person singular simple present extimulates, present participle extimulating, simple past and past participle extimulated)

present singular third person extimulates · participle present extimulating · participle past extimulated · past extimulated

  1. obsoleteTo stimulate.

    Opium itſelf is conceived to extimulate unto venery, and for that intent is ſometimes uſed by Turks, Perſians, and most oriental Nations

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinextimulatus
  2. Englishextimulate

From Latin extimulatus, exstimulatus, past participle of extimulare, exstimulare (“to goad”). See stimulate.

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Chicago

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