(n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
(n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.
(n.) The power of willing or determining; will.
Example Sentences:
(1) In more than 80% of the cases it was possible to register volitional activity by EMG as well as to elicit an electroneurographic response.
(2) The preceding paper, by Louis Tinnin, challenges us to consider that there is a brain agency responsible for mental unity, volition and consciousness, which the author labels a "governing mental system" (GMS), or "ego," and that the neural substrate for this GMS is Wernicke's Area.
(3) Four forensic psychiatrists were asked to indicate whether they thought 164 defendants met any or all of four insanity tests: 1) the American Law Institute (ALI) cognitive criterion, 2) the ALI volitional criterion, 3) the APA test, and 4) the M'Naghten rule.
(4) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
(5) Test 3 was identical to test 2 but was preceded by 10 min of volitional, isocapnic hyperpnea (85% of peak exercise V.E) at a controlled frequency and tidal volume.
(6) Long-latency stretch reflex and volitional EMG amplitude modulations were assessed as functions of the tracking phase.
(7) Although it indicates that there is no disturbance in the vividness of volitional mental imagery in schizophrenia, the presence of abnormal spontaneous imagery cannot be commented upon.
(8) The authors suggested that the sexual problems of chronic schizophrenics were related to their conditions in the body, rapport with their wives or husbands and the severity of affect, thought and volition disturbances.
(9) Impairment of previous motor deficit has been observed in 3% of cases; volitional and postural dyskinesia seems to be the most curable symptomatology.
(10) The MAX test consisted of incremental treadmill running to volitional exhaustion.
(11) Few defendants met cognitive tests without also meeting the ALI volitional test.
(12) There is a curious behavior observed in the human split-brain experiments in which the subject demonstrates a reflexive and obligatory ownership of the actions initiated by the silent right brain even though the speaking self is ignorant of that volition.
(13) Training consisted of a single set of variable resistance bilateral knee extensions performed to volitional fatigue with a weight load that allowed seven to ten repetitions.
(14) These data suggest that a component of bradykinesia results from a defective coordination of supraspinal reflex and volitional control systems.
(15) The imbalance between mesocortical and nigrostriatal dopaminergic systems might explain the fact that sultopride in our experiment modified spontaneous behavior but not volitional behavior.
(16) The four work loads were set a 25, 50, 60 and 70% of maximal volitional isometric strength (IS).
(17) The eight patients were all aged and showed cerebral infarction, reduced volition, etc.
(18) Only a slight difference was observed between the cardio-ventilatory responses to volitional and passive exercises.
(19) It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent."
(20) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.
Will
Definition:
(v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.
(v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
(v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
(v.) Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.
(v.) That which is strongly wished or desired.
(v.) Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine.
(v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.
(adv.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have.
(adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "You will go," or "He will go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.
(v. i.) To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.
(n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
(n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order.
(n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.
(v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.