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adjective 
  1. (biology) having the power to move spontaneously
    • 1993: It seemed to him that, if there were a Holy Trinity as the churches taught, this must be unified through a manner of capillary action, Father merging into Son and both into Holy Ghost. So God is as the blood is. " Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
  2. (psychology) of, or related to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position
Etymology: From Latin motus.


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