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premotion|priːˈməʊʃən|
[ad. med.L. præmōtiōn-em, n. of action f. late L. præmovēre to move (anything) beforehand: see premove. So F. prémotion (1713 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Motion or impulse given beforehand; esp. applied to divine action held to determine the will of the creature.
a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 133 They contend..whether with this freedome of will..Physicall predeterminations or præmotions can consist. a1680J. Corbet Free Actions ii. vii. (1683) 18 It being to a good act, it is a Premotion perfective of our Nature, and to its well-being. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Physical premotion, according to Alvarez, Lemos, etc., is a complement of the active power, whereby it passes from the first act to the second; i.e. from a complete, and next power, to action. 1867[see premovement]. 1885Catholic Dict. 384/2 [About 1580] Bannez, a Dominican professor at Salamanca,..represented efficacious grace as determining the free consent of the will by ‘physical premotion’, and this premotion which was infallibly followed by the consent of the will came, as he alleged, from God's absolute decree that the person so moved by grace should correspond to it. 1887Mind Apr. 266 This thesis is nothing more than the mere denial of ‘physical premotion’. |