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Definition of Motific
1. a. Producing motion.
Definition of Motific
1. Adjective. Producing motion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Motific
1. motif [adj] - See also: motif
Lexicographical Neighbors of Motific
Literary usage of Motific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True by Adin Ballou (1854)
"By motific spirit I mean that grade of Spirit which merely gives motion, attractive
or projective, vibratory, circular or vertical, to Matter. ..."
2. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"motific nerves here chiefly affected: as also in blights. ... In this case the
motific nerves, or those derived from the anterior trunk of the spinal cord, ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1852)
"rate in the nerve, sensibility from the motific power; and the other ...
tetanic rigidity appears at the very time when the motific power of the nerve is ..."
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