MOTIVE
\mˈə͡ʊtɪv], \mˈəʊtɪv], \m_ˈəʊ_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of MOTIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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That which moves; a mover.
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That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
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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.
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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.
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Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
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To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
By Oddity Software
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That which moves; a mover.
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That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
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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.
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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.
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Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
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To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
By Noah Webster.
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That which urges to action; as, love of country is the motive that sends many men to war; reason.
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Causing action; as, steam is the motive power in the locomotive.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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causing movement.
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Inducement; reason.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That which incites to action or determines the choice; inducement; the subject which a work of art respects, or the spiritual idea which pervades it. Motive force, the sum of force which tends to promote motion.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Causing motion; able or tending to move.
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That which actuates or influences; that which determines the choice; inducement; cause; reason; in art, that which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist, when undertaking a subject.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
