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Impulse

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

(Latin: in, on; pellere, to drive)

It movement, whether of the sensitive or mental faculties, urging the will to make some choice or perform some action, usually without mature deliberation, though often, as with one habituated to virtuous actions, no deliberation is needed.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Impulse'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​i/impulse.html. 1910.