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MO'TIVE, a. [See the Noun.] Causing motion; having power to move or tending to move; as a motive argument; motive power.

MO'TIVE, n.

1. That which incites to action; that which determines the choice, or moves the will. Thus we speak of good motives, and bad motives; strong and weak motives. The motive to continue at rest is ease or satisfaction; the motive to change is uneasiness, or the prospect of good.

2. That which may or ought to incite to action; reason; cause.

3. A mover. [Not in use.]



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MO'TIVE, a. [See the Noun.] Causing motion; having power to move or tending to move; as a motive argument; motive power.

MO'TIVE, n.

1. That which incites to action; that which determines the choice, or moves the will. Thus we speak of good motives, and bad motives; strong and weak motives. The motive to continue at rest is ease or satisfaction; the motive to change is uneasiness, or the prospect of good.

2. That which may or ought to incite to action; reason; cause.

3. A mover. [Not in use.]

MO'TIVE, a. [See the Noun.]

Causing motion; having power to move or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power. Hooker. Bentley.


MO'TIVE, n. [It. Sp. and Port. motivo; Fr. motif. See Move.]

  1. That which incites to action; that which determines the choice, or moves the will. Thus we speak of good motives, and bad motives; strong and weak motives. The motive to continue at rest is ease or satisfaction; the motive to change is uneasiness, or the prospect of good.
  2. That which may or ought to incite to action; reason; cause.
  3. A mover. [Not in use.] Shak.

Mo"tive
  1. That which moves; a mover.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  2. Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

    "Motive faculty." Bp. Wilkins.

    Motive power (Mach.), a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

  3. To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
  4. That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.

    By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctively. J. Edwards.

  5. 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.

    [Written also motivo.]
  6. 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.

    Syn. -- Incentive; incitement; inducement; reason; spur; stimulus; cause. -- Motive, Inducement, Reason. Motive is the word originally used in speaking of that which determines the choice. We call it an inducement when it is attractive in its nature. We call it a reason when it is more immediately addressed to the intellect in the form of argument.

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Motive

MO'TIVE, adjective [See the Noun.] Causing motion; having power to move or tending to move; as a motive argument; motive power.

MO'TIVE, noun

1. That which incites to action; that which determines the choice, or moves the will. Thus we speak of good motives, and bad motives; strong and weak motives. The motive to continue at rest is ease or satisfaction; the motive to change is uneasiness, or the prospect of good.

2. That which may or ought to incite to action; reason; cause.

3. A mover. [Not in use.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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