Actuates

Examples

• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Checker: Prudence