All 4 Uses of
actuate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- —No, rejoined the other, I appreciate to the full the motives which actuate your conduct and I shall discharge the office you entrust to me consoled by the reflection that, though the errand be one of sorrow, this proof of your confidence sweetens in some measure the bitterness of the cup.†
Chpt 12
- Mr Bloom actuated by motives of inherent delicacy inasmuch as he always believed in minding his own business moved off but nevertheless remained on the qui vive with just a shade of anxiety though not funkyish in the least.†
Chpt 16
- Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male (Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian).†
Chpt 17 *
- Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(actuate) to make a machine work or cause someone to act