Dictionary entry

Stirring

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stir″ring (?), a. Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey.

Syn. — Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.