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Definition of Stirring
1. Adjective. Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement. "Stirring events such as wars and rescues"
2. Noun. Agitating a liquid with an implement. "Constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan"
3. Adjective. Exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions. "A stirring speech"
4. Noun. Arousing to a particular emotion or action.
Definition of Stirring
1. a. Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.
Definition of Stirring
1. Adjective. invigorating or inspiring ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of stir) ¹
3. Noun. (context: gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stirring
1. a beginning of motion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirring
Literary usage of Stirring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"By this means, and by piling on wood and stirring now with pokers and now with
iron rods, the curdled mass rapidly began to liquefy. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"At the same time I kept stirring up the channels, and sent men upon the roof ...
By this means, and by piling on wood and stirring now with pokers and now ..."
3. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"A fountain gets muddy with but little stirring up, and does not get clear by our
meddling with it but by our leaving it alone. ..."
4. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"XI "THE stirring OF THE POWERS" K;BECCA'S visit to Milltown was all that her
glowing fancy had painted it, except that recent readings about Rome and Venice ..."
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