telic

adj.
Directed or tending toward a goal or purpose; purposeful.

[Greek telikos, from telos, end.]

(TEL-ik, TEE-lik)

adjective
Tending toward a goal; expressing purpose.

Etymology
From Greek telikos, from telos (end). The word telephone comes from the same root

"Operation Telic" is the name of the British mission in the second Gulf War.

Usage
"A telic motivation starts with isolating a need and then feeling anxious about resolving it." — James B Twitchell; Needing the Unnecessary; Reason (Los Angeles, California); Aug/Sep 2002.

"As there is a semblance to Orwell's Animal Farm, one might call the work an allegory, but where Orwell designed a telic action with specific goals set for well-defined characters, `A Book of Pigs' forces upon its hero too many purposeless meanderings." — Alfreds Straumanis; Cuku Gramata; World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma); Sep 1, 1996.

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(tel′ik)

adj(teleologic), assigning purpose to functions as if they were provided by a creative planner.

tending toward an end