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Ideo-motor
I`de*o-mo"tor\, a. [Ideo- + motor.] (Physiol.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. --Carpenter.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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