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Motive

Webster's Dictionary

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(1):

(a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

(2):

(v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

(3):

(n.) 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.

(4):

(n.) That which moves; a mover.

(5):

(n.) 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.

(6):

(n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Motive'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/motive.html. 1828.
 
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