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Orientate   Listen
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Orientate  v. i.  To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.





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"Orientate" Quotes from Famous Books



... we have been mainly concerned to show the use that social philosophies have made of the Darwinian laws for practical purposes: in order to orientate society towards their ideals each school tries to show that the authority of natural science is on its side. But even in the most objective of theories, those which systematically make abstraction of all political tendencies in order to study the social ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
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... possibility of rectifying an illusion. What distinguishes abnormal from normal mental life is the persistent occupation of the mind by certain ideas, so that there is no room for the salutary corrective effect of reflection on the actual impression of the moment, by which we are wont to "orientate," or take our bearings as to the position of things about us. In sleep, and in certain artificially produced states, much the same thing presents itself. Images become realities just because they are not instantly recognized as such by a reference to the actual surroundings of ...
— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully
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... shown, the bene- and nociceptors orientate man to all forms of physical contact—the former GUIDE HIM TO the acquisition of food and to sexual contact; the latter DIRECT HIM FROM contacts of a harmful nature. The distance ceptors, on the other hand, adapt man to his distant environment by means of communication ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile
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Words linked to "Orientate" :   decide, orient, make up one's mind, disorient, reorientate, guide, guide on, reorient, determine


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