Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or inducing motion: motor or motorial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Producing motion.
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- adjective Producing
motion .
Etymologies
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Latin motus motion (from movere to move) + facere to make.
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Examples
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Corpolongo's buoyant tenor-sax style and gift for motific improvisation, it's hard not be reminded of vintage Sonny Rollins.
Chicago Reader 2010
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