2. Adjective. (music of a rhythm) Based on repetition of a single note length ¹
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Definition of Motoric
1. pertaining to muscular movement [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Motoric
Literary usage of Motoric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pericosmic Theory of Physical Existence and Its Sequel Preliminary to by George Stearns (1888)
"motoric Force. is that which is inherent to its own vehicle. It is either
aboriginal, as in the rotation of atoms, in which case it is the immediate product ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1892)
"slow progression, a disturbance of the function of the facial, both of its superior
and inferior branches, of the motoric portion of the fifth, ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1894)
"Paresis and paralysis of the motoric centres is always evident, the only difference
being a certain predilection for certain spheres, —viz., the poison of ..."
4. Chemical Lecture Notes by Henry Milton Whelpley, Charles Otto Curtman (1895)
"The electro-motoric power (or strength of current) in the open circuit is proportional
... Hence, strength E equals electro-motoric power divided by liquid ..."
5. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1907)
"... this was explained by saying that the electric fluid exerted not only
pondero-motoric but also electro-motoric action at a distance. ..."
6. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"... raving about obscene matters when arrested, constantly masturbated, and became
a raving maniac with violent motoric irritability and fever. ..."
7. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"The same principle also holds true for the motoric processes in the extremities,
for the motor speech apparatus in central lesions and for the higher ..."
8. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
"... facial contortions and other motoric manifestations, temperature 40.7°).
Masturbation as if by instinct. Recovery under treatment with ..."
9. The Pericosmic Theory of Physical Existence and Its Sequel Preliminary to by George Stearns (1888)
"motoric Force. is that which is inherent to its own vehicle. It is either
aboriginal, as in the rotation of atoms, in which case it is the immediate product ..."
10. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1892)
"slow progression, a disturbance of the function of the facial, both of its superior
and inferior branches, of the motoric portion of the fifth, ..."
11. Therapeutic Gazette (1894)
"Paresis and paralysis of the motoric centres is always evident, the only difference
being a certain predilection for certain spheres, —viz., the poison of ..."
12. Chemical Lecture Notes by Henry Milton Whelpley, Charles Otto Curtman (1895)
"The electro-motoric power (or strength of current) in the open circuit is proportional
... Hence, strength E equals electro-motoric power divided by liquid ..."
13. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1907)
"... this was explained by saying that the electric fluid exerted not only
pondero-motoric but also electro-motoric action at a distance. ..."
14. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"... raving about obscene matters when arrested, constantly masturbated, and became
a raving maniac with violent motoric irritability and fever. ..."
15. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"The same principle also holds true for the motoric processes in the extremities,
for the motor speech apparatus in central lesions and for the higher ..."
16. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
"... facial contortions and other motoric manifestations, temperature 40.7°).
Masturbation as if by instinct. Recovery under treatment with ..."
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