Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
Bacon.
4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
"To stir men to devotion." Chaucer.
An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
Shak.
And for her sake some mutiny will stir.
Dryden.
In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an
intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Syn. -- To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite;
provoke.
Stir, v. i. 1. To move; to change one's position.