stimulatrixEtymologyLearned borrowing from Latin stimulātrīx. By surface analysis, stimulator + -trix.nounA female who stimulates.“I think it but reasonable to attribute them [tides] to her [the Moon's] agency, as the stimulatrix and supplier of that electric principle by which land and water, for certain lengths of space and for certain times, mutually attract and repel each other, which is the proper definition of tide.”