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Volitional
Volitional meaning
Of or relating to the volition or will. | Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental. | Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
Example sentences (11)
Based on the ruling in Mercer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1991), while you can still get a DUI if the vehicle isn't in motion, proof of "volitional movement" is required for a conviction.
AOS affects an individual's volitional speech and citation is typically the result of a stroke, tumor, or other known neurological illness or injury.
AOS often co-occurs with Oral Apraxia, which is the inability to perform volitional tasks with the oral structures not involving speech.
Instead it views the person as a set of constantly changing processes which include volitional events seeking change and an awareness of that desire for change.
Physiotherapy programs are designed to encourage the patient to build a strength base for improved gait and volitional movement, together with stretching programs to limit contractures.
The arising and passing of these aggregates in the present moment is described as being influenced by five causal laws: biological laws, psychological laws, physical laws, volitional laws, and universal laws.
The final effect may be purely physical or it may reach far into the biological or volitional domains.
The test thus takes into account both the cognitive and volitional capacity of insanity.
This is an ability to carry out any volitional movements of the tongue, cheeks, lips, pharynx, or larynx on command.
Unlike the Jains who believed that karma was a quasi-physical element, for the Buddha karma was a volitional mental event, what Richard Gombrich calls ‘an ethicised consciousness’.
While describing events apparently chosen randomly in ostensibly precise mathematical or scientific terms, the episode is rife with errors made by the undefined narrator, many or most of which are volitional by Joyce.