motion, mocyon

[Fr. motion, from Lat. motionem, acc. of motio =a movement, from motus, pa. par. of moveo to move; Sp. mocion; Italian mozione.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act, state, or proce of moving or changing place; a change in position; a pa ing of a body from one place or position to another move ment. The opposite to rest. "Soon after four both armies were in motion ."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xvi. 2. The power of moving. "The vital spirits, which, born in arteries, Continual motion to all parts do bring." Davies: Immortality of the Soul , s. 23. 3. A single movement or act of motion. "Commanded by the motion of thine eyes." Shakesp.: Sonnet 149. 4. A manner of moving; gait. "Would give an excellent motion to thy gait." Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor , iii. 3. *5. Internal movements or workings. "Long I sat not, till my womb Prodigious motion felt." Milton: P. L., ii. 780. *6. Impulse communicated; motive power. "Carnality is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion."-Decay of Piety. *7. A movement of the mind, heart, or soul; an internal impulse; a tendency of the mind; an inclination. "I am always full of good motions , that come into my mind."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. *8. Sense; mental sight. "I see it in my motion." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , ii. 3. 9. A proposal made or offered; a proposition; especially a proposition moved in a deliberative a embly; as, a motion for the adjournment, a motion for a committee. IMG:content-1426.png:[blocks in formation] (1) The movement of a single part with reference to intervals taken by it. Conjunct motion takes place when the sounds move by single degrees of the scale, e. g ., C, D, E, F; disjunct motion is when they move by skips, e . g ., C, F, D, G. (2) The movement of two or more parts with relation to each other. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction either by single degrees or by skips; contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions; oblique motion is when one part remains stationary while another moves. 5. Horol.: The train of wheels in a watch immediately concerned in the moving of the hands. [MOVEMENT.] 6. Steam - engine : (1) The cro -head in a locomotive. (2) The slide, slide-rod, and link of a locomotive engine. 1. Laws of motion : Three principles or axioms laid down by Sir Isaac Newton: (1) If a body be started in motion, and if no force act upon it, that body will continue in motion in the same direction, and with the same velocity. Of course this cannot be directly proved by observation, no one being able to start a body in a portion of the universe free from other bodies which will attract it, and if he could start it on in a vacant space, he could not watch its subsequent progre through infinite space and eternity. But the length of time during which tops will spin or finely mounted pendulums will go in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump, can be accounted for in no other way than by supposing the truth of the first law of motion. ( Airy : Pop . Astronomy , pp. 218 220.) (2) Change of motion is proportional to the acting force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. (3) To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed in the same straight line. 2. Organic molecular motion : A kind of motion occurring in nearly all the internal proce es in organic bodies. It must exist to produce absorption, secretion, . Physiol. Anat., i. 60.) (See Todd and Bowman: 3. Paralysis of motion: [A CINES I A.] motion-bars, s. pl. Steam-engine: Guide bars or rods. *motion-man, subst. One who traveled with a puppet-show. "And travel with young Goose, the motion-man." Ben Jonson: New Inn, i. 1. mō-tion, v . t. & i. [MOTION, 8.] IMG:content-1427.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To make significant motions or gestures with the hand or head. *2. To make proposals; to propose; to offer plans. mō-tion-er, *mo-ci-on-er, s. [Eng. motion; -er.] One who makes a motion; a mover, an instigator. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, "God the mocioner , the autour, and the woorker of all goodne ."-Udall: To Queen Catherine. *mō-tion-Ist, s. [Eng. motion; -ist.] One who makes a motion. mō-tion-le , a. [Eng. motion; -le .] Without motion, at rest. "How motionle /-not frozen seas More motionle ." Words worth: To a Butterfly. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; motmot mō-tive, *mō-tif, a . & 8. [Fr. motif , from Low Lat. motivus moving, animating, from Lat. motus , pa. par. of moveo to move; Ital., Sp. & Port. motivo .] A. As adjective : 1. Causing motion; having power to cause motion; moving or tending to move. "Every motive argument used in such kind of conferences." -Hooker: Eccles. Polity. 2. Having the power to move or change place; capable of motion. *3. Changeable, turning; not fixed. "Nature is motive in the quest of ill, stated in mischief."- Feltham , Resolves, p. 46. B. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: *1. That which moves; a motive part. "Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , iv. 5. 2. That which moves or incites to action; that which determines the choice or will; reason, inducement, cause, ground, incentive. "Now I have motive to be brave; The son of his neglected slave." Byron: Bride of Abydos , 1. 12. *3. A person who is the cause of anything; an author. "Am I the motive of these tears?" Shakesp.: Othello, iv. 2. IMG:content-1428.png:[blocks in formation] mō-tive, v. t. [MOTIVE, s.] To give or supply a motive to; to prompt, to move, to instigate.