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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

A more

stirring

and intellectual age than any which had gone before it.

Southey.

Syn. – Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.

ppr.

Moving; agitating; putting in motion.

Noun.

[supra.] The act of moving or putting in motion.