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▸ noun:  (obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
▸ noun:  An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
▸ noun:  (law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
▸ noun:  (architecture, fine arts) A motif.
▸ noun:  (music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
▸ adjective:  Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
▸ adjective:  Relating to motion and/or to its cause

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