Verb

(en verb)

To strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour

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*{{quote-book, year=1856, author=John Esten Cooke, title=The Last of the Foresters, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The landlord had been so much pleased with Mr. Jinks' patriotic ardor in the German cause, that he generously hinted at an entire obliteration of any little score chalked up against the name of Jinks for board and lodging at the hostelry; this was one of the circumstances which inspirited Mr. Jinks. }}

Verb

(actuat)

To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.

* Johnson

Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.

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. § 11.

A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.

* Addison

Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.