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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, w…

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  1. a. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which areautomatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result ofdistinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts inspeech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the compositionof the sentence. Carpenter.