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- adjective moved to action.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
actuate .
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- adjective moved to action
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Examples
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The apparatus by which purposive movements are actuated is the nervous system, and also, the muscles into which the nerve fibre is so intimately interlaced.
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Some of these are really a form of slot machine with coin actuated mechanisms while others are motor driven, attracting attention as moving displays always do.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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The material, operating upon our senses, is always asserting its existence; and if our inner life is not equally vigorous, we shall be moved, urged, what is called actuated, from without, whereas all our activity ought to be from within.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864
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Valves can be closed or "actuated" either manually or by hydraulics.
Dr. Philip Neches: Gulf Oil Spill: Meet the Blow Out Preventer 2010
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Dorje has done that to her which sets up consequences; she gives birth to consequence; it is a sacred frenzy such as actuated all those widows who committed suttee in the days gone by.
Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931
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A kind of actuated mirror would scan the beams from a red, a green, and a blue laser to generate an image.
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But now that you are free, you should be actuated by a more noble principle than fear.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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She was as alien as a far-journeyer from some other star, and no hint could she nor all the countryside give me of what forms of living, what heats of feeling, or rules of philosophic contemplation actuated her in all that she had been and was.
SAMUEL 2010
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Composed of men and women actuated by lofty purpose and unafraid to die, the Fighting Groups exercised tremendous influence and tempered the savage brutality of the rulers.
Chapter 16: The End 2010
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I could not believe that the love of life that actuated us had been implanted in our breasts by aught other than God.
Chapter 19 2010
BrainyBabe commented on the word actuated
She liked to see the crowds, she did; it was the same with a great many others. Indeed, among all those thousands, Yashima herself was perhaps the only one who was actuated by nothing more than vulgar curiosity. -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008