She is not recognized as a self-directing, responsible agent.
They assume the attitude of self-directing and self-responsible bodies.
We can make its impulses follow a rut, so to speak, but we cannot make them free and self-directing.
There are always opaque facts as well as self-directing agents.
The soul may be a mechanism, but it is a self-directing and self-executing mechanism.
It teaches almost every infamy under the heavens for woman, and it does not recognize her as a self-directing, free human being.
late 14c., from Latin directus "straight," past participle of dirigere "set straight" (see direct (v.)).
late 14c., "to write (to someone), to address," from Latin directus "straight," past participle of dirigere "set straight," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + regere "to guide" (see regal). Cf. dress; address.
Meaning "to govern, regulate" is from c.1500; "to order, ordain" is from 1650s. Sense of "to write the destination on the outside of a letter" is from 16c. Of plays, films, etc., from 1913. Related: Directed; directing.