Obs. Also autoch-. [ad. Gr. αὐτοκῑνησία, n. of quality f. αὐτοκίνητος: see next.] Self-movement, spontaneous motion.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iii. § 33. 159. A simple internal energy or vital autokinesie, which is without … Consense and Consciousness. Ibid., V. 668. Self-activity or autochinesie was in order of nature before the local motion of body which is heterochinesie.
