impellent

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They were visions of conquest and exploration, an almost mystical impellent that drove him time and again from one horizon to another.

From Time Magazine Archive

He came to his feet with an impellent desire to crush this unholy man like a toad, to flee into the night, to lie under the stars and seek clearance for his troubles.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

Cleve, noting the smile, divined something of the 166 impellent thought behind that smile, and he grew uneasy.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

We shall go farther than these men have gone and show you that the impellent energy of ideas is the means to all practical achievement and to all practical success.

From Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren

What impellent was driving him toward these introspections?

From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold