Actuate vs Effectuate - What's the difference?
actuate | effectuate |
To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
* Johnson
To incite to action; to motivate.
* 1748 . HUME, David Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 11.
* Addison
To be the cause of something.
To bring about something; to effect or execute something.
In transitive terms the difference between actuate and effectuate
is that actuate is to incite to action; to motivate while effectuate is to bring about something; to effect or execute something.actuate
English
Verb
(actuat)- Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
- A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
- Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.