Motivate
['məʊtɪveɪt] or ['motə'vet]
Definition
(verb.) give an incentive for action; 'This moved me to sacrifice my career'.
Checked by Benita--From WordNet
Examples
- Another is to make the consequences of not attending painful; we may use the menace of harm to motivate concern with the alien subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mechanical rigid woodenness is an inevitable corollary of any theory which separates mind from activity motivated by a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The same considerations apply to the value of a study or a topic of a study with reference to its motivating force. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Roy