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Meanings of actuate in English

Portuguese
activar
Spanish
provocar

Put in motion or move to act.

      activar
      Portuguese
      motivar
      Spanish
      motivar

      Give an incentive for action.

            motivar
            Usage of actuate in English
            1
            All these motives actuate men and sometimes drive them in different ways.
            Laws
            2
            The appetites and passions would infallibly occupy and actuate the whole man.
            An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
            3
            I have no selfish ambition to gratify, no personal motives to actuate.
            History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 /...
            4
            Is their purpose to appeal to our understanding, and actuate our humanity?
            The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
            5
            He knew the reputation of Johnson, and the motives which might actuate him.
            For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the ...
            6
            It is the true spirit that should actuate a Wau-Wau Girl.
            The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas; Or, Fun and Frolic in the S...
            7
            True it is there are many feelings that actuate me at this moment.
            Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I...
            8
            Now I have no feeling of that kind to actuate me.
            The Privateersman
            9
            Divine thought and energy, love and blessing actuate every action of my being.
            The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It
            10
            Self-love, directed by wisdom, is perhaps the best principle that can actuate him.
            A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
            11
            But the Golden Rule doesn't actuate the bulk of mankind, unfortunately.
            The Spinners
            12
            Geometrically moving your arm to actuate the big arm up there.
            Wired
            13
            This idea seems to actuate all animals when in the last stage of thirst.
            Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
            14
            He was void of any of these feelings which actuate men to do good.
            Barchester Towers
            15
            But he was perhaps equally void of those which actuate men to do evil.
            Barchester Towers
            16
            Have I laid finger on the sentiments which actuate you?
            The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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