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to make a machine work or cause someone to act

What motive actuated Bigger Thomas?
Richard Wright -- Native Son

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Perhaps his sense of fairness actuated him once more, for he ordered Shady and Moze out to do their share.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
In this he was actuated by a sense of duty; he had to look after Stein's business, he said.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
It was self, self, all self that had actuated her.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
And though his questions were unpleasantly blunt, they seemed actuated by a friendly interest.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
There were duty here and pity and unselfish love, but these alone did not actuate Shefford.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
I assure your ladyship I am not actuated by any motives of that sort," says Mr. Guppy, "and I couldn't accept anything of the kind.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
The value of the gold appeared to be fifteen dollars to the ounce, but the real value of money did not actuate the gamblers.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
The pilots input the flight plan and the load sheet through the MCDU keyboards, and all en route flight-plan changes are also actuated with the McDoos.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Nothing in the realm of life was self-actuated or even poorly actuated from that point on.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered.
George Orwell -- 1984
"Majesty, whatever actuated you, it was a stroke of diplomacy," replied her brother.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Nevertheless I cannot believe that all those who practise virtue from religious motives are only actuated by the hope of a recompense.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
No, it be an actuated magic word.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Human groups are actuated by their group ideals, and these are always based on the infantile situation.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
She did not believe that Tull had been actuated solely by his minister's zeal to save her soul.
Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
Can he, when nearest to honesty (no human is ever very near), feel fully convinced that he actuated wholly by the desire to obey the Enemy?
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
The militia of Pennsylvania seem to be actuated with a spirit more than Roman.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Mrs. Penniman, who was shocked at her sister's coarseness, replied that he had been actuated by the noblest of motives—the desire not to impoverish Catherine.
Henry James -- Washington Square

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