motation
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English
Etymology
From Latin motare, motatum (“to keep moving”).
Noun
motation (countable and uncountable, plural motations)
- (obsolete) motion; movement
- 1928, William Moulton Marston, Emotions of Normal People:
- Each of these synaptic combinations of motor impulses, therefore, must be expected to give rise to one of the two primary elements of motor consciousness, pleasantness or unpleasantness, as well as to form complex varieties of motation corresponding with superadded complexities of impulse relationship.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “motation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)