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Definition of Actuated
1. Adjective. Moved to action. "A man actuated by unworthy desired"
Definition of Actuated
1. Verb. (past of actuate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Actuated
1. actuate [v] - See also: actuate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actuated
Literary usage of Actuated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"... actuated by a band from any first mover as usual, and the subordinate roller« «
cylinders belonging to the carding engine, are all turned by pulleys, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... two dependent kingdoms, he soon felt that a country is unsubdued as long as
the minds of the people are actuated by an hostile and contumacious spirit. ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... who was not, as lias sometimes been represented, a low mercenary ruffian, but
a gentleman of good family, actuated by a spirit of ferocious fanaticism. ..."
4. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"... Conduct of Officers—Allege- ment that One was actuated by Jealousy—Federals
retire behind their Works—Laying the Confederate Lines about Knoxville. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... that he had never been actuated by vindictiveness, and urged him to seek the
divine forgiveness and mercy. On the following day the sen- 6. ..."
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