GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Motile (?), a. [See Motive.]
   
   1. (Biol.) Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement; as, “motile bacteria, motile protozoa, motile cilia, motile spores, etc.”
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
   [+PJC]
   
   2.  Producing motion; as, “motile powers”.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
         
       

2.       
   Motile, n. (Psychol.) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]