Meanings
- rareA female who stimulates.
I think it but reasonable to attribute them [tides] to her [the Moon's] agency, as the stimulatrix and supplier of that electric principle by which land and water, for certain lengths of space and for certain times, mutually attract and repel each other, which is the proper definition of tide.
1803, Tiberius Cavallo, Evolution, page 81Synonyms: stimulatress
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female who stimulates.
Origin
- Latinstimulātrīx
- Englishstimulatrix
Learned borrowing from Latin stimulātrīx. By surface analysis, stimulator + -trix.
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