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Definition of Stirred
1. Adjective. Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion. "Very touched by the stranger's kindness"
2. Adjective. Emotionally aroused.
3. Adjective. Set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend.
Definition of Stirred
1. Verb. (past of ''stir'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stirred
1. stir [v] - See also: stir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirred
Literary usage of Stirred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1918)
"Subsoiling increases the percentage capacity for water of the soil stirred. Li.
Subsoiling decreases the capillary conducting power of the soil stirred. ..."
2. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"They numbered scarce eight summers when a name Rose on their souls and stirred
such motion* there As thrill the bnds and shape their hidden frame At ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(b) "The Holy Ghost Himself, by His supernatural power, stirred up and impelled
... Deus", "God stirred up and impelled the sacred writers to determine to ..."
4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... confidence between them stirred the little biting snake that had long lain
curled and ... stirred ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"To a stirred slurry of 32 g of mercuric acetate in 150 ml of alcohol was added
... The mixture was stirred overnight and the insoluble product was filtered ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... evolution were the work of a people stirred to revolution and driven to creative
energy by religion, even more than by economic or political pressure. ..."