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self-ˈmotion
[self- 5 c.]
Motion produced by inherent power apart from external impulse; voluntary or spontaneous motion.
[1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 145 As Car-nails fastned in a wheel (without Selfs-motion) turn with others turns about.] a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. Pref. (1622) p. iij, Ascribing that his inclination, not vnto his owne selfe-motion; but vnto Gods prouidence. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 99 By how much the more spontaneous..the self-motion is, by so much the more free it is judged to be. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. i. 10 Matter is not endow'd with Self-motion. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. Diss. 13 A self-motive nature, which is nothing besides self-motion, is the cause of motion to all things. 1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sci. iv. xi. 417 This theory [sc. Samuel Clarke's] of self-motion has been severely criticized by Sir W. Hamilton. |