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actuate

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actuate [′ak·chə·wāt]
(mechanical engineering)
To put into motion or mechanical action, as by an actuator.


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The bordering States, if any, will be those who, under the impulse of sudden irritation, and a quick sense of apparent interest or injury, will be most likely, by direct violence, to excite war with these nations; and nothing can so effectually obviate that danger as a national government, whose wisdom and prudence will not be diminished by the passions which actuate the parties immediately interested.
Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me.
Therefore the only reason which could actuate her would be to convince someone else that she was blameless.
 
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