extimulate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To stimulate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “extimulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)