Ideo-motor

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ideo-motor \I`de*o-mo"tor\, a. [Ideo- + motor.] (Physiol.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]