Obs. Also 7 extim-. [n. of action f. exstimulāre (see prec. and -ATION).] Stimulation, incitement; stimulating property.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 842. The Aire … maketh Things insipid, and without any Extimulation.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 118. Some have made sallies upon female chastity, but it hath been to sate and allay the boiling extimulations of their own, rarely of others lusts.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 229. Repentance doth exhibit … all the … instigations, extimulations, that should make God propense to favour.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
