Now rare. [f. STIMULANT a.: see -ANCY.] Stimulating quality.
1799. W. Taylor, in Robberds’ Mem., I. 311. Hexameters … are less favourable to … the highest stimulancy of style, than blank verse.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XVI. 3. The narrow-minded bigotry which sets up either Madeira or Sherry at the expense of the other’s ancestral stimulancy.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl., Addr. to Rdr. Let then its comparative merits and demerits, in respect of style and stimulancy, possess a proportional weight.
1851. T. T. Lynch, Lett. Scattered (1872), 175. Recollections and wit have had especial charm and stimulancy.
