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motile, a. (and n.)|ˈməʊtaɪl, -ɪl|
[ad. L. type *mōtilis, f. mōt-, ppl. stem of movēre to move: see -ile.]
1. In Zool., Bot., etc.: Capable of motion; characterized by motion.
1864Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. IV. 189 The motile phenomena hitherto observed in sponges. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 261 Still or motile cells of Protococcus. 1890Cooke Introd. Fresh-w. Algæ 143 Active motile cells are so common amongst algæ that they scarce need description.
2. Psychol. Of or relating to responses that involve motor imagery. Cf. motor a. 3. Also as n., one who responds to perceptions more readily in terms of motor or kinæsthetic imagery than in terms of auditory or visual.
1886Mind XI. 415 This division of men into visuals, audiles, motiles and indifferents..is of great interest and importance. 1889Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. V. 536 A ‘motile’ reading the above question will dimly imagine the movements of his own larynx in uttering the word elephant. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xviii. 61 Persons who belong to this type (les moteurs, in French, motiles, as Mr. Galton proposes to call them in English) make use, in memory, reasoning, and all their intellectual operations, of images derived from movement. Ibid. 62 Professor Stricker of Vienna..seems to have the motile form of imagination developed in unusual strength. 1892― Text-bk. Psychol. xix. 308 All blind persons must belong to the ‘tactile’ and ‘motile’ types of the French authors. 1909[see audile a.]. |