In the Roman Catholic Church masturbation, when an individual deliberately stimulates their genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure, is considered a grave sin.
It is "a bearer of diverse interpretation", he says; and its ambiguities are deliberately designed to stimulate thinking.
"It's Very Stimulating" is, deliberately, the whitest hip-hop record ever made.
Deliberately paying attention to how things feel can awaken your brain so that your sense of touch gets stimulated.
The anarchy stimulated him.
Intellectually, I am stimulated".
"We stimulated the economy".
Of course, any economic policy will produce winners and losers, and it seems unlikely that policy makers are deliberately sacrificing retirees either to stimulate the economy or to grind down government debt.
Most learning environments are deliberately arranged or adapted to stimulate learning towards some learning objectives, e.g. by adding learning materials, tasks, tests, feedback and support.
