stir (v.) Old form(s): Stird , stirr'd , stirre
move, rouse, excite
AC I.i.43.2[Antony to Cleopatra, of himself] But stirred by Cleopatra
Cym IV.ii.38.2[Guiderius to Arviragus and Belarius, of disguised Innogen] I could not stir him [i.e. to tell his story]
Mac V.v.12[Macbeth to himself] my fell of hair / Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir / As life were in't
Sonn.21.2[of a poet] Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse
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