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Stimulation

noun

The act of arousing an organism to action.

Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action. Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulus.

(physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.).

Mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse. Synonyms: arousal, foreplay.

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"Stimulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... is well supplied with epithelial and ganglionic nerve-cells; their function is wholly reflex and involuntary; they preside over the pulsing or swimming movements of the nectocalyx. This pulsing is excited by stimulation, and is analogous, so far as movement is concerned, to the peristaltic action of the intestines. Situated on the margin of the bell are a number of very minute, round bodies, the so-called "eyes." These eyes are supplied with nerves, one of whose functions ...

— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

... agricultural lime. The crop infested is sometimes carried through by giving a special dressing of nitrate of soda, guano or other quick-acting powerful fertilizer, and hilled high with moist earth, thus giving a special stimulation and encouraging the formation of new roots. While this does not in any way cure the disease, it helps the crop to withstand its attack. When planting again be sure to use crop rotation and to set plants not grown ...

— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell

... promised an exciting diversion, very welcome just now when Olive had to give up the customary stimulation of the drug. ...

— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

... distilled this liquor," Father Beret added, handing the cup to Farnsworth, "not for common social drinking, my son, but for times when a man needs extraordinary stimulation. It is said to be surpassingly good, because ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... Serbian and his blood-red dawn, and this man Stillman, who had a wife, and Flint, with hands so ready to flick threads from her sloping shoulders. Yesterday her outlook had been peaceful and unhappy; to-day she felt stimulation of an impending struggle. She was afraid, and yet she would not have turned back for one swift moment. And suddenly the words of Mrs. Finnegan recurred, "I guess we women are all alike." ...

— The Blood Red Dawn • Charles Caldwell Dobie

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