English to English Dictionary -motives

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Electro-motive :: Electro-motive (a.) Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects..

Emotive :: Emotive (a.) Attended by, or having the character of, emotion..

Emotiveness :: Emotiveness (n.) Susceptibility to emotion.

Emotivity :: Emotivity (n.) Emotiveness.

Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..

Locomotiveness :: Locomotiveness (n.) Alt. of Locomotivit.

Locomotivity :: Locomotivity (n.) The power of changing place.

Manumotive :: Manumotive (a.) Movable by hand.

Motive :: Motive (n.) That which moves; a mover.

Motive :: Motive (n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object..

Motive :: Motive (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading..

Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..

Motive :: Motive (a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power..

Motive :: Motive (v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Motiveless :: Motiveless (a.) Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive.

Motivity :: Motivity (n.) The power of moving or producing motion.

Motivity :: Motivity (n.) The quality of being influenced by motives.

Motivo :: Motivo (n.) See Motive, n., 3, 4..

Pedomotive :: Pedomotive (a.) Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

Promotive :: Promotive (a.) Tending to advance, promote, or encourage..