Definition of Motory

1. conveying motion [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motory

motors
motorsailer
motorsailers
motorscooter
motorscooters
motorship
motorships
motorsport
motorsports
motorsportsman
motorsportsmen
motortruck
motortrucks
motorway
motorways
motory (current term)
motour
motrix
mots
motser
motsers
motte
motte and bailey
motted
mottes
motti
mottier
mottiest
mottis

Literary usage of Motory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"COR. I. The motory vibrations of the five classes mentioned Prop. XVIII. will generate a propensity to corresponding motory ..."

2. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"COR. I. The motory vibrations of the five classes mentioned Prop. XVIII. will generate a propensity to corresponding motory ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"On the supposed Distinction between Sensory and motory Nerves. ... The author held that both nerves were sensory and motory ; but that о wing to their ..."

4. Principles of the History of Language by Hermann Paul, Herbert Augustus Strong (1888)
"motory and sound sensations need necessarily stand in no intimate connexion with each ... The mere act of listening to others gives no motory sensation, ..."

5. The American Eclectic Practice of Medicine by Ichabod Gibson Jones (1857)
"Excito-motory and Excito-Secretory Sub-Systems of Nerves. ... In 1837 Dr. Marshall Hall announced the existence of an excito- motory system of nerves, ..."

6. On Asthma: Its Pathology and Treatment by Henry Hyde Salter (1882)
"The phenomena of asthma mostly excito- motory or reflex. ... That these phenomena are those of excito-motory or reflex action. Fourth. ..."

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