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Stipuled to Stock Stipuled Stir My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.Sir W. Temple. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.Shak. Stir not questions of jurisdiction.Bacon. An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.Shak. And for her sake some mutiny will stir.Dryden. In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition. Syn. To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke. I had not power to stir or strive,Byron. All are not fit with them to stir and toil.Byron. The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.Merivale. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.I. Watts. Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?Denham. Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.Locke. |
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