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▪ I. † aˈmove, v.1 Obs. Also 4–5 amoeve, 4–6 ameve, 6 amoove. [a. OFr. amov-er, amouv-oir, accented stem ameuv-:—L. admovē-re to move to, excite to, f. ad to + movē-re to move. App. confounded to some extent with OFr. esmover, mod.Fr. émouvoir:—L. exmovēre.] 1. To set in motion, stir, stir up, excite (any action, a person to action, the heart, the blood, etc.).
a1330Sir Otuel (1836) 33 Suiche tydings thei herden, That á-moeuede al here blod. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxiii. 118 He walde amowe were in Frawns. 1541Paynell Catiline lii. 75 b, The commons were excedingly amoued agaynst the Senatours. c1590Greene Poems 136 At all these cries my heart was sore amoved. 2. esp. To move the feelings of (a person), to move inwardly, cause emotion to. (Fr. émouvoir.) a. trans. (usu. pass.)
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. i. 6 Sche was a lytel ameued and glowed wiþ cruel eyen. 1494Fabyan ii. xlviii. 32 When the knowlege of y⊇ deth of Irreglas was brought vnto the kynge, he was therwith greatly amoued. 1513Douglas æneis ix. iii. 40 How art thou thus agane the fatis amouit? 1596Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 45 She..him amoves with speaches seeming fit. b. refl.
1530Palsgr. 425/2 Kepe your pacyence and amove you not. c. intr.
c1280Signs bef. Judg. in E.E.P. (1862) 11 Þer nis no seint in heuen abow..Þat þer of ne sal amoue. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 442 Whan she had herd al this she noght ameued [v.r. amoued] Neyther in word, in cheer, or countenaunce. 3. trans. To arouse (from sleep, etc.).
1595Spenser Daphnaida 545, I, stepping to him light, Amooved him out of his stonie swound. ▪ II. amove, v.2|əˈmuːv| [ad. L. āmovē-re to remove, move out of the way; f. ā = ab off + movē-re to move; prob. as a legal term directly f. Fr. amoever, in this sense in Act 9 Hen. VI. (quoted by Godefr.).] 1. To remove (a person or thing) from a position; to dismiss (a person) from an office. (Now only in legal phraseology.)
1494Fabyan vii. 486 The sayde persones were from the kynge amoued. 1524State Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 110 Amoving and expellyng him from all auctorite. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxxvi, Claws, horns, hoofs they use the pinching ill t'amove. 1800Colquhoun Comm. & Pol. Thames xi. 319 These Harbour-Masters may be suspended or amoved. 1832J. Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. 1098 An abortive attempt to amove it [an object of theft]. †2. To remove, put away (things immaterial). Obs.
1536Bellendene Cron. Scotl. I. 35 Al hatrent for that time beand amovit. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. iv. x. 13 To amoue the note of ingratitude, and turbulency from them. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. v. 12 Zeal..in amoving this grand errour out of the Church. |