actuate

(verb)

To incite to action; to motivate.

Related Terms

  • stimulation
  • convince

Examples of actuate in the following topics:

  • The Goals of a Persuasive Speech: Convincing, Actuation, and Stimulation

    • Persuasive speeches can be designed to convince, actuate, and/or stimulate the audience.
    • An actuation speech has a slightly different goal.
    • An actuation speech is designed to cause the audience to do something, to take some action.
    • They are seeking to actuate the action of voting through their speeches .
    • Political candidates use actuation speeches so that their supporters will cast their votes.
  • "Extend the Sphere"

    • He defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. " He identifies the most serious source of faction to be the diversity of opinion in political life, which leads to dispute over fundamental issues such as what regime or religion should be preferred.
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