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Definition of Set in motion
1. Verb. Get going; give impetus to. "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"
Definition of Set in motion
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to trigger movement, to get going ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set In Motion
Literary usage of Set in motion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... are liberated or set in motion, the electric a charge of a corpuscle per unit
of its mass,— > tn is always the same, no matter what the condition of the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... in its usual significance does not mean simply a machine which will go on
moving for ever, but 'a machine which, once set in motion, will go on doing ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1816)
"... but that a single event should produce an immediate change in the state of
things which would again set in motion all the armed force of Europe, ..."
4. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"... and the whole machine is much obstructed when set in motion in a direction
repugnant to his inclinations and views. May Heaven preserve us from kings, ..."
5. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1878)
"MEANS BY WHICH AIR IS set in motion. T n the stables of cattle there is often
excessive over-crowding, and it is »•ell- known that there is a vast amount of ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"except when set in motion by the dreadful paroxysms of an earthquake. In tidal
and other observations the earth therefore behaves as a solid, ..."
7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Exposition at Minneapolis opened, the machinery being set in motion by Mrs.
Grover Cleveland by telegraph from the Adirondack woods in New York. ..."
8. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"The next day the cortege was set in motion, but it was a very slow motion.
The strongest of the horses, without baggage, could just reach the top of the ..."
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