[n. of action f. med.L. actuāre; see ACTUATE and -ION. Actuātio may have been used in med. L.] A communication of motion, a bringing into action, a moving, stirring up, or urging; excitement, impulse, movement.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, VI. vi. Wks. V. 63. The several actuations, draughts, or replenishments, which are derived from the infinite fountain of life.
1656. H. Jeanes, Fvlnesse of Christ, 390. The Actuation, the stirring up of our faith, which is our receiving and acceptance of Christs fulnesse.
1699. Burnet, 39 Articles, ii. (1700), 51. By the Indwelling and Actuation of the Soul, it has another Spring within it.
1876. Maudsley, Physiol. Mind, viii. 466. The whole region of motor residua [in the nervous system] might be described generically as the department of actuation.
1879. Gladstone, Gleanings, I. i. 55. How the best designs are spoiled by faulty actuation.
