1) Aim 2) Causative 3) Cause 4) Ethics 5) Impulse 6) Incitement 7) Intent 8) Moral 9) Morals 10) Motivating 11) Motivation 12) Motivative 13) Obbligato 14) Obligato 15) Reason 16) Urge
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1) Causative 2) Cause for a crime 3) Columbo question 4) Driving force 5) Envy, anger or greed 6) French word used in English 7) Greed or revenge 8) Impelling to action 9) Motor 10) Murder mystery necessity 11) Mystery element 12) Mystery-plot element 13) One element of a crime 14) Purpose 15) Reason
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n. in criminal investigation the probable reason a person committed a crime, such as jealousy, greed, revenge or part of a theft. While evidence of a motive may be admissible at trial, proof of motive is not necessary to prove a crime.
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[law] A motive, in law, especially criminal law, is the cause that moves people to induce a certain action. Motive, in itself, is not an element of any given crime; however, the legal system typically allows motive to be proven in order to make plausible the accused`s reasons for committing a crime, at least when those motives may be obscur...
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• (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading. • (a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motiv...
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(from the article `Voevodsky, Vladimir`) ...built on the work of one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, the 1966 Fields Medalist Alexandre Grothendieck. Grothendieck ...
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in music, a leading phrase or figure that is reproduced and varied through the course of a composition or movement. See melody.
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In the criminal law, it refers to the reasons because of which the person commited the crime. It can be greed, malice, fear, revenge or anything which makes the state of mind belief or emotionally binding to commit certain act which can be a crime.The prosecution need not have an evidence to proof the motive unlike the "intent" which need...
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motive
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Mo'tive adjective Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a
motive argument;
motive power. '
Motive faculty.'
Bp. Wilkins. Motive power (Machinery) ,
a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion t...
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Mo'tive noun [ French motif , Late Latin motivum , from motivus moving, from Latin movere , motum , to move. See Move .] 1. That which moves; a mover. [ Obsolete] Shak. 2. That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting ...
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Mo'tive transitive verb To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
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The inducement, cause or reason why a thing is done.When there is such a mistake in the motive, that had the truth been known, the contract would pot have been made, it is generally void., For example, if a man should, after the death of Titius, of which he was ignorant, insure his life, the error of the motive would avoid the contract. Or, if Titi...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: mō′tiv Definitions: 1. An acquired predisposition, need, or specific state of tension within a person that arouses, maintains, and directs behavior toward a goal. 2. The reason attributed to or given by a person for a behavioral act. Synonyms: learned drive
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The reason for a character´s actions, movements, words ...
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The probable reason a person committed a crime, as when one acts out of jealousy, greed, or revenge. While evidence of a motive may be admissible at trial, proof of motive is not necessary to prove a crime.
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The USS Motive was an American Auk Class minesweeper of 890 tons displacement launched in 1942. The USS Motive was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 18 knots and carried a complement of 105. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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In music, the motive is the theme or subject taking the form of a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor or a movement. It is a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is developed.
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A short melodic or rhythmic idea that recurs throughout a musical composition.
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Something that plays a role in one's decision to act.
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a short repeated pattern which can be melodic, rhythmic, or both.
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(Lat. motus, from movere, to move) An animal drive or desire which consciously or unconsciously operates as a determinant of an act of volition. -- L.W.
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a short melodic and/or rhythmic fragment.
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An impulse that causes a person to act.
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