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actuates
vb. (en-third-person singular of: actuate)
Usage examples of "actuates".
IMAGINARY danger actuates him, in opposition to the opinion and belief of REAL safety.
It is a quite different principle, which actuates our bosom, and interests us in the felicity of the person whom we contemplate.
If a glimpse or dawn of order appears for a moment, it is instantly hurried away, and confounded, by that never-ceasing force which actuates every part of matter.