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- English Word Motive Definition That which moves; a mover.
- English Word Motive Definition That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
- English Word Motive Definition The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
- English Word Motive Definition That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
- English Word Motive Definition Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
- English Word Motive Definition To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
- English Word Motiveless Definition Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive.
- English Word Motivity Definition The power of moving or producing motion.
- English Word Motivity Definition The quality of being influenced by motives.
- English Word Motivo Definition See Motive, n., 3, 4.
- English Word Motley Definition Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.
- English Word Motley Definition Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.
- English Word Motley Definition Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
- English Word Motley Definition A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
- English Word Motley Definition Hence, a jester, a fool.
- English Word Motley-minded Definition Having a mind of a jester; foolish.
- English Word Motmot Definition Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note.
- English Word Moto Definition Movement; manner of movement; particularly, movement with increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto, directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a little more rapidly than andante, etc.
- English Word Moton Definition A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.
- English Word Motor Definition One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.