motrix

It is at this level that bodies and their phenomenal properties, such as extension, the force of inertia, and motor force (vis motrix), are described in mechanistic terms.

Christian Wolff Hettche, Matt 2006

According to Gassendi, the universe requires the existence of God who not only created it but gave its constituent atoms a vis motrix or motive force which provides for motion and by which Gassendi's God regulates the world.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968

And therefore the quantity of matter in gold was to the quantity of matter in the wood as the action of the motive force (or vis motrix) upon all the gold to the action of the same upon all the wood -- that is, as the weight of the one to the weight of the other: and the like happened in the other bodies.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

I often thought — so grateful for the smallest service rendered in an arena where ingratitude sometimes seems to be the _vis motrix_ of life — a truly lovable man, if ever there was one.

Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

You will not find it so elsewhere, and if you do not want to have the vis motrix that controls you, gravely suspected, be a little more respectful for the future in your deportment toward specifics.

A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862

Vis inertis pugnat cum vi motricc; ergo fi darur in corporibus vis motrix, non diktur vis tnertis*

Francisci Tessanek ... Elementa physicae Franz Tessanek 1768

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Antoniana Margarita: opus nempe physicis, medicis ac theologis non minus ... 1554