stimulater

English

Etymology

stimulate +‎ -er

Noun

stimulater (plural stimulaters)

1. Alternative form of stimulator
   • 1830, James Sullivan Martin, A Narrative of some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, page 181:

     he next produced some cider, as good and rich as wine, then giving each of us a large slice of his toasted bread, he told us to eat it and drink the cider,-—observing that he had done so for a number of years and found it the best stimulater imaginable.

   • 1968, Herbert Wayland Cummings, A Rhetorical Analysis of Dr. Duncan E. Littlefair Using Rokeach's Theory of the Open and Closed Mind, page 86:

     His speaker role as he defines it is as a stimulater, and not as a speaker seeking some definite course of action.

   • 1976, A Titan Exploration Study, page IR-80:

     Also, the stimulater material must be properly selected to eliminate confusion in interpreting the data.

Anagrams

• mutilaters