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Actuate   /ˈæktʃˌuˈeɪt/   Listen
verb
Actuate  v. t.  (past & past part. actuated; pres. part. actuating)  
1.
To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; more commonly used of persons. "Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion." "Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it."
2.
To carry out in practice; to perform. (Obs.) "To actuate what you command."
Synonyms: To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate.


adjective
Actuate  adj.  Put in action; actuated. (Obs.)





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"Actuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... will be zealous and honest in the discharge of their duties, must be very imperfectly acquainted with human nature, and with the motives by which men are influenced in all quarters of the world; but we are none of us so ignorant, for we all know that the same motives actuate public servants in India as elsewhere. We have acted successfully upon this knowledge in the scale of salaries and gradation of rank assigned to European civil functionaries, and to all native functionaries ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... conclude, therefore, that in all nations the first ideas of religion arose not from a contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life, and from the incessant hopes and fears which actuate the human mind." A century before him Hobbes had written in his terse way: "The natural seed of religion lies in these four things: the fear of spirits, ignorance of secondary causes, the conciliation ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton
... which was pretty and amusing, but women generally were little more to him than children. He talked to them without putting out all his powers, and listened to them without any idea that what he should hear from them could either actuate his conduct or ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... View of the Vital Forces which sustain and extend God's Kingdom—Unity of the Plan of Redemption; its Continual Progress; Indications of the End towards which it is tending; the End Itself the Chief Object of Interest—Great Crisis in the Church's History—Spirit that should actuate ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows
... and goodness to the maker of what surround us, should not also our mode of existence and perception authorise us to call what is hurtful to us disorder, and to attribute impotence, ignorance, or malice, to that Being which we would suppose to actuate nature. ...
— Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever • Matthew Turner


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