| 释义 |
inactuate, v. arch.|ɪnˈæktjuːeɪt|
[f. in-2 + actuate.]
trans. To make active, put in action, stir into activity.
1651H. More Second Last in Enthus. Tri. (1656) 179 How magnificent a state is the Soul of man in, when the life of God, inactuating her, shoots her along with himself through Heaven and Earth. 1652H. More in R. Ward Life More (1710) 292 Those [Souls]..do very highly and vigorously Inactuate the Matter which falls to their Share for their Vehicles. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xiv. 160 The plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body. [1881Shorthouse J. Inglesant (1882) I. xvii. 310.]
Hence inactuˈation, a bringing into activity, the condition of activity.
1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xiii. 138 That they should be inconsistent in the supremest exercise and inactuation, is to me as probable. Ibid. xiv. 145 They [the creatures] were then constituted in the inactuation and exercise of their noblest and most perfect powers. |