Verb (used with object), : actuated by selfish motives. ,to actuate a machine.    From Dictionary.com. 

No virus actuating any of them has been discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peyton Rous - Nobel Lecture] Reference

It was a dissolving fire which was actuating him now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

Hempstead zoologically protected actuating Pullmanizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » BROADCASTING REVISIONISM:] Reference

Swelling-light installations over actuating mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [12. Answers to the Questions for Repetition and Knowledge Tests] Reference

‘One never can tell what is actuating people,’ said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Live Now] Reference

By actuating S2 K1 and the time relay K3 are switched on.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Asynchronous motors] Reference

State redeemed (?) was not with them the actuating motive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts of Reconstruction] Reference

By actuating the pulley, P, the commutators are rotated, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference

The precise reasons actuating Lola in adopting this step were not divulged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Fortunately for the witches, without the motives actuating in different ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

What could be actuating her woman's mind in this was more than he could tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Husband by Proxy] Reference

By actuating S2 K1 and the time relay K2 (initial torque delay) are switched on.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Asynchronous motors] Reference

He rose, could into the pilot seat be fallen and reached for the actuating lever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble Twisters]

The actuating motive is not always kindness and humanity, but a desire to get out of danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference

It is a measure of the energy absorbed in actuating the meter or in overcoming the friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference

Topics covered include: 1. Continuing to pedal while actuating downtube or bar end shifters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gyrating and Curating: Finding the Centerpiece of your Inner Groupo] Reference

The entire instrument is blown by a gas engine, actuating a rotary blower and high pressure feeders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference

But in addition to these reasons there was another, which was, I think, at last the actuating cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography] Reference

Then they baited their hooks, and cast out, with the fisherman's habitual hope actuating their actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chums of the Camp Fire] Reference

But the very obscurity of actuating motives drove me on and I stepped out through the doorway muttering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Gold] Reference

Will the world of British young ladies be much scandalised if I say that such is often an actuating motive?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayala's Angel] Reference

The OnTech self-heating container is built from two main parts: the container and the actuating “puck.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfgang Puck’s Self-Heating Can | Impact Lab] Reference

The apparatus is designed for the production of light and for actuating electric motors, large induction bobbins, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884] Reference

The sounding apparatus, the Brothergood engine for actuating it, and the electric light apparatus were placed upon the bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

For these same reasons her mother also desired her return, yet Mildred knew that there was another motive actuating her mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference

The temperature within the drying chamber is controlled by means of any suitable thermostat, actuating a valve on the main steam line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Each of the coils were rolled 80,000 turns accurately, and were connected in series in opposite direction, actuating as a gradiometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Newt has plan to become president ‘almost by magic.’] Reference

No such misgoverned colonies as those of Germany will be tolerated under the new rule and the new spirit actuating the victorious Allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference

The motive power is furnished by a 10 H.P. steam engine, which serves at the same time for actuating the machine tools employed in construction or repairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference

When conditions permit, the driver can also select the electric mode by actuating a separate e-key in the cockpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference