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▪ I. remove, n.|rɪˈmuːv|
Also 6–7 rem(o)oue, -moove, 7 -mouve.
[f. the vb.]
1. a. The act of removing a person from a position or office; dismissal. Now rare.
1553[see remove v. 3 b]. 1559Mirr. Mag. D iij, The two dukes..On whose remove fro beyng aboute the king We all agreed. 1607Statutes in Hist. Wakefield Gram. Sch. (1892) 68 The causes and maner of the ushers remove. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 341 At length, with much adoe, they procured his remove, and Porcius Festus succeeded. 1712Swift Wks. (1883) XV. 486 It is still expected that the duke will be out, and that many other removes will be made. 1799in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. III. 363 We shall find sundry brisk removes of many in public honour.
†b. The act of removing a person by death; murder. Obs.
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. ii. i. 136 Lets goe, my Lord; your staying staies reuenge... Her fauour must be wonne by his remooue. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 81 He most violent Author Of his owne iust remoue. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I 89 Intimating..that Overburies untimely remove had something in it of retaliation.
†c. The raising of a siege. Obs. rare—1.
1607Shakes. Cor. i. ii. 28 If they set downe before's, for the remoue Bring vp your Army.
2.
†a. The act of taking away, or doing away with, a thing. Obs.
1597Bacon Coulers Good & Evill Ess. (Arb.) 147 The..blossome is a positiue good, although the remoue of it to giue place to the fruite be a comparatiue good. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 71 That which is early received,..as it were grows into our tender natures, and is therefore of difficult remove. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 57 A three-fold want of sap..occasioned by the remove of the root.
b. Farriery. The act of taking off a horse's shoe in order to dress the hoof and replace the shoe in a proper manner on the same or another foot: hence, an old shoe used over again. Now dial.
1594Greene & Lodge Looking Gl. G.'s Wks. (Rtldg.) 138/2 If you want a shoe, a remove, or the clinching of a nail, I am at your command. 1636Heywood Love's Mistress iv. i, Phœbus fore-horse Must have two new shooes, calk'd, and one remove. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 90/1 A Remove is, when a shooe is taken off, and set on again with new Nails. 1729Swift Direct. Serv. v. Wks. 1751 XIV. 62 His horse wanted two Removes; your Horse wanted Nails. 1821A. Welby Visit N. Amer. 94 The price I paid to a blacksmith for eight new horse-shoes,..and eight removes. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Remove, the re⁓shoeing of a horse with the old shoes.
c. The act of taking away a dish or dishes at a meal in order to put others in their place; hence, a dish thus removed, or brought on in place of one removed.
1771B. Franklin in M. Farrand Benjamin Franklin's Mem. (1949) 124/1 Every Man at the first Remove, found under his Plate an Order on a Banker. 1773Johnson (ed. 4) Remove, a dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains. 1820Hermit in London IV. 161 Two courses and removes, consisting of about 30 dishes. 1828Lights & Shades I. 236 A very genteel dinner,..with a remove, and an excellent dessert. 1852Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story iii, The maid..brought in that remove of hashed mutton.
3. a. The act of removing or shifting a thing from one place to another.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. vii. 17 So as the Moores should not burne them,..which now by their remooue was preuented. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 15 This short cutting at the remoue, saues your Plants from winde. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 237 Having gotten an Elephant for the remove of our baggage and commodities, we left Moulgas. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋13 Five or six such motions, or rather removes of the Balls. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 437/1 The birth of the Pretender is represented by the chest.., perhaps alluding to the removes of the warming-pan.
†b. Fencing. A thrust made while withdrawing the foot. Obs. rare.
1595Saviolo Practise H iij, If your enemy be first to strike at you, and if at that instant you would make him a passata, or remoue, it behoueth you to be very ready with your feet and hand.
†c. Chess. A move. Obs.
1645City Alarum 11 Like two ill Gamesters at Chesse, who make many remooves to little purpose. 1656Beale Chess A iv b, He which loseth shall have a palpable reason for every remove he maketh.
fig.1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 55 Alexander perciev'd by them that this Pawn-bishop had made all his removes right.
†4.
a. The act of transferring a person from one office or post to another; the fact of being so transferred. Obs.
1610in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 107 Upon the remove of the Bishop of Gloucester to Worcester, Dr. Tooker..had thought to have succeeded. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 34 By this failer the Master of our Ship had a remove into the Vice-Admiral. 1701W. Wotton Hist. Rome 270 After a short remove to the Quæstorship of Sardinia, he was appointed to go as Legate. 1751Affect. Narr. Wager 11 His Request being comply'd with, occasioned some Removes: For..our Captain, Kidd, was remov'd to the Pearl.
b. Promotion, at school, of a pupil from a class or division to a higher one.
1747Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. xcvi. 272 Every remove, (you know) is to be attended by a reward from me, besides the credit you will gain for yourself. 1768–75in Maxwell Lyte Hist. Eton Coll. (1877) 319 The time allowed for trying boys for their removes is not to be in a school hour. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. vii, Tom..was praised, and got his remove into the lower fourth. 1894Wilkins & Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 43 Surprising I didn't get my remove this term.
c. At some schools, as Eton and Charterhouse: A certain division of the school.
[1718in Maxwell Lyte Hist. Eton Coll. (1877) 288 The successive forms were called..First Form, Lower Remove, Second Form,..Fourth Form, Remove, Fifth Form.] 1733Ibid. 305 He has been examined..and is placed in the 4th form, last remove, till further trial. 1844Disraeli Coningsby i. ix, Some unhappy wight in the remove, wandering about.., seeking relief in the shape of a verse. 1860Cornh. Mag. Dec. 648 To act as policeman to my remove, to mark the boys in and out of chapel, to collect their maps and exercises [etc.]. 1873E. Coleridge in Ornsby Mem. J. R. Hope-Scott (1884) I. 20 He was placed in the lower Remove of the Remove in September.
5. a. The (or an) act of changing one's place, esp. one's place of residence; departure to another place. Now rare (very common c 1590–1760).
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cv. xi, Quailes in whole beavies each remove pursue. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 240, I call him..the flitting figure, or figure of remoue, like as the other before was called the figure of aboade. 1601Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 131 Here's a petition from a Florentine, Who hath for foure or fiue remoues come short, To tender it her selfe. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 5 Speeding themselves in great hast, for to prevent all rumors of their remove. 1650S. Clarke Eccl. Hist. i. (1654) 169 Faustus was constrained by frequent removes to hide himself. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. vi. 24/1 The next Year there was a great Remove of good People thither. 1757Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 II. 97 Three removes are as bad as a fire. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) I. 235 Death..is..a remove for the better. 1820Clare Rural Life 7 All old favourites..Griev'd me at heart to witness their removes.
†b. A signal for departure. Obs. rare.
1581Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. lxii. (1591) 35 When al was in order ready to march, they cal to sound the remoue. 1622F. Markham Bk. War v. iii. 171 All things being assured, he may then cause the Drumme-maior to beat a remoue.
†c. A period of absence from a place. Obs.—1
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. i. 44 In our remoue, be thou at full, our selfe.
6. a. The space or interval by which one person or thing is remote from another, in time, place, condition, etc.; distance.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xiv. 41 The soules Perspective glasse: whereby, in her long remoue, shee discerneth God. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xii. 329 A Sign that {saturn} is more frigid than {jup}, by reason of his greater remove. 1771Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 385 A giddy, careless temper is at the farthest remove from the whole religion of Jesus Christ. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iv. (ed. 2) 66 He would see that scale recede from him to as distant a remove as that where it now stands. 1876Meredith Beauch. Career xxxii, As mountains gather vastness to the eye at a certain remove.
b. A step or stage in gradation of any kind; especially in phr. but one (or a) remove from.
1633G. Herbert Temple, Jordan ii, Must all be vail'd, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes? 1668R. Steele Husbandman's Calling ix. 225 How can I glorifie my Maker, that am but one remove from a piece of..sinful earth? 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 123 It might be well enough if you were..but a remove or two from the dirt you seem so fond of. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. (1852) 193 Events are explained by other events separated from them by a thousand removes. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. viii. (1875) 126 Yet nascent feudality was but one remove from anarchy.
c. A degree in descent or consanguinity.
1766Goldsm. Vic. W. i, Our cousins, too, even to the fortieth remove, all remembered their affinity, without any help from the heralds' office. 1789Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 161 These puppies are the second remove from the Wolf and Dog. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. i, I am not prepared to inform the Court in what exact remove he is a cousin.
d. Printing. The number of sizes by which the type of footnote or side-note is smaller than that of the text; hence, the note itself.
1890C. T. Jacobi Printing v. 70 Footnotes are nearly always set in type two sizes (or removes, as they are called) smaller than text... Side-notes are frequently put into three or four removes smaller. 1898J. Southward Mod. Printing i. xxxvii. 224 The usual type for notes is two or three removes from the text. 1934V. Steer Printing Design & Layout xvi. 293 Footnotes are explanatory notes at the foot of the page usually set in type two removes from the size used for the text. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 345/2 Removes, quotations or notes set at the foot of a page and in smaller type than that of the text.
7. attrib., as remove-ticket.
1805Nelson 26 Apr. in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 416, I directed Captain Schomberg to make out the proper Remove-Tickets for the wages due to the said men.
▪ II. remove, v.|rɪˈmuːv|
Forms: α. 4–5 remeeve, 4–6 remeue, -meve, (5 -mevyn, -mewe, -mefe, -meff). β. 4–7 remoue, (5 -mouyn), 6–7 remooue, 7 -moove, 5– remove; 4 remo(u(n, remuve (8 Sc.), 4–5 remow(e, 5 Sc. ra-), 5 remown(e; also north. and Sc. 5 remofe, -muf(f, 5–6 -mufe, 6 -moif, 5–6 ramuff, -muif.
[a. OF. remeuv-, remouv- and remov-, the stressed and unstressed stems of remouvoir:—L. removēre, f. re- re- + movēre to move. On the variation of form see move v.]
I. trans.
1. a. To move or shift from or out of the place occupied; to lift or push aside; to lift up and take away; to take off.
The precise connotation varies to some extent with the nature of the object and the intention of the moving.
a1300–1400Cursor M. 17288 + 99 (Cott.), Who sal vus helpe to remou þat heuy stone? c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiii. 150 Þe tendre erthe was remowed fra his place and þare become a valay. c1460Towneley Myst. xxvi. 369 Which shall of us systers thre remefe the stone? 1530Palsgr. 685/1 Remeve this thynges out of the waye. 1535Coverdale Job vi. 17 When they be set on fyre, they shalbe remoued out of their place. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋5 Translation it is..that remooueth the couer of the well, that wee may come by the water. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. vi. 65 On the other Edge make a Line of Equal Parts, with an Ear in like manner to remove at pleasure. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 A Spring in the Tympan removes the Paper in this interval of Time. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. lxxxi. (1783) III. 101 Having, as the tea-equipage was removing, some intention to take his leave. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, ‘What's that?’ he inquired, as the waiter removed one of the covers. 1843Youatt Horse (1848) 313 The shoe having been removed, the smith proceeds to rasp the edges of the crust.
b. To take away, withdraw, from a place, person, etc.; † to raise, abandon (a siege). Also refl. to betake oneself away.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. v. 769 He..hym ramowit þan in hy, And agane hayme in Medy. 1530Palsgr. 685/1 Remeve you from thence, my frende. Ibid., I remeve my selfe out of the place I am in. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 90 So were the warders removed from the gates the same day. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xv. 16 They resolued to remoue their siege, and to imbarke themselues with their ordinance. 1648Milton Ps. lxxxviii. 69 Lover and friend thou hast remov'd And sever'd from me far. 1667― P.L. viii. 119 God to remove his wayes from human sense, Plac'd Heav'n from Earth so farr. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 201 Jove..Remov'd from Humane reach the chearful Fire. 1729Law Serious C. xv. 273 We can..remove ourselves from objects that inflame our passions. 1819Scott Ivanhoe i, [The swine] made..no haste to remove themselves from the luxurious banquet of beech-mast and acorns. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. iv. i. (1874) 464 The Epicureans removed their Gods far above the care and supervision of human affairs.
c. To take or convey away from a place; † to keep apart, separate. Also removed, taken away by death.
1459Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 227 Yt thei..delyuere vn to George Chaworth..alle his stuffe that he hath at Alfreton,..he to remeve them at his awne wille. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 11 That Rascall hath remoued my Horse, and tied him I know not where. 1610― Temp. ii. i. 110 She too, Who is so farre from Italy remoued, I ne're againe shall see her. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. xi, A border citie these two coasts removing. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vi. 195 Mr. Brett had hitherto gone on in collecting and removing the treasure without interruption. 1816Southey Ess. (1832) I. 191 The latter was early removed from a world which his Talents..were..fitted to adorn. 1850Tennyson In Mem. Prol. 37 Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair.
d. To put (a person) out of the way; to assassinate, murder.
1653A. Wilson Jas. I 65 The Prince..being removed, the Earl of Salisbury (another obstacle) dying six moneths after the Prince [etc.]. 1655–6T. Ross in Cal. St. Papers, Dom. (1882) 196, I cannot divine how, except by removing Cromwell, to which one of them had specially devoted himself. 1889Times (weekly ed.) 31 May 6/2 An elaborate article to-day, declares that Dr. Cronin was ‘removed’ by the Clan-na-Gael after trial and conviction.
e. In pass. Of dishes: To be replaced or followed by, after removal.
1840Lady C. Bury Hist. of Flirt iv, There was fish and soup, removed by boiled chickens and bacon. 1852Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story iii, Boiled haddock, removed by hashed mutton.
f. Cricket. Of a bowler or ball: to dismiss (a batsman).
1969Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 300 Underwood..accounted for Redpath and Walters, each getting an inside edge to the ball that removed him. 1976Eastern Even. News (Norwich) 22 Dec. 14/2 With the fourth ball of his second over Lever removed Venkataraghavan, the ball brushing the batsman's glove before passing through to wicketkeeper Alan Knott. 1977Evening Post (Nottingham) 24 Jan. 16/3 Selvey removed Sivaramakrishnan with his fourth ball.
2. a. To move, shift, transfer or convey from one place to another; to change the place or situation of († also with place as obj.); † to lead (a force) to another place.
13..Guy Warw. (A.) ccxcvi, Lete him be stille, Neuer more remoun him y nille, No do him hennes lede. 1388Wyclif 2 Sam. xx. 12 He remouyde Amasa fro the weie in to the feeld. c1400Destr. Troy 3113 Ho..beckonet hym boldly..his place to Remeve. c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 177 Letuce is to be sette in Ianyueer.., the plantes to remeue In Feueryeer. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxi. 166 Than he remeuyd his people, and in sondry places faughte with the Danys. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §129 If thou wylte remoue & set trees gete as many rotes with them as thou can. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 215 He politiquely..determined in great haste to remove his whole army. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 301 You ought not to have removed or chaunged the place without the consent of the Emperour. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iii. ii. (1614) 234 Their tents, which with themselues, their flockes, and substance, they remoued vp and downe from place to place. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 343 Then removing the string the space of 15 degrees in the Quadrant. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 170 This row being thus planted, the line was removed two feet forwards. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 178 Remove the needle from the situation P to the situation R. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 25 Elizabeth was now removed to Canterbury. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xi. 151 [He] is about to remove his residence from among us.
refl.c1375Lay Folks Mass. Bk. (MS. B) 301 Þo prest wil after in þat place Remow [v.r. remo] him a litel space.
absol.1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 17 The onely best way..to haue sure and lasting Sets, is neuer to remoue: for euery remoue is an hinderance.
†b. Law. To transfer (a cause or person) for trial from one court of law to another. Also refl.
1507Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 394 Writes of privelage to remowe ple othir ples owte of the cowrt of the citte. 1607Cowell Interpr. s.v. Habeas Corpus, is a writ the which a man..may haue out of the Kings bench, thereby to remooue himselfe thither..and to answer the cause there. 1627T. Powell (title) The Attornies Almanacke, provided..for..all such as shall have occasion to remove any person, cause or record, from an inferior Court to any the higher Courts at Westminster. 1744[see remover2 2].
†c. Chess. To move (a piece). Also absol. Obs.
1562J. Rowbotham Playe of Cheasts B ij, Oftentymes the game is lost by remouinge the Rookes Paune or Knyghtes Paune one roume. a1585Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 215, I gat sik chek, Quhilk I micht nocht remuif nor nek, Bot eyther stail or mait.
3. a. To send or put (a person) away; to compel (one) to go from, or quit, a place.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 401 Ȝif..þou have a wickide servaunt.., putte him out of his office and remeeve him fer awey. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. xvi. 1416 Of neid þaim behuffit to be banyst and ramowyt Fra þar gud, þar kyn, þar kytht. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 329 A knyȝhte..promysede to brynge an hoste of Scottes to remove hym from that sege. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 86 From thy face thow sall thame swyith remufe. 1581Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 396 Thay on nawyse suld..molest, rais or remove any of the auld tennentis. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxv, Then happy I that loue and am beloued Where I may not remoue nor be remoued. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 96 To remove him I decree, And send him from the Garden. a1768Erskine Inst. Law Scot. ii. vi. §49 (1773) 273 Warning must be used in order to remove a tenant in a common lease. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 848 The tenant is..entitled to continue his possession.., until legally removed by the landlord.
b. To put (one) away from, or out of, a position or office; to depose, dismiss.
1388Wyclif 1 Kings xv. 13 He remouyde Maacha,..that sche schulde not be princesse in the solempne thingis. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 477/2 That the seid Sergeauntz be remeved at the ende of every Yere. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 36 The Aldermen of the forsayd cite that eueri yere they ben remeued..and that they so remeued be not chosen ayen the next yere. 1520Caxton's Chron. Eng. iii. 20 b/2 The Trybunes were remeved every yere. 1553in Hakluyt Voy. (1886) III. 18 And the person so remoued not to be..accepted..from the time of his remoue, any more for an officer. 1775Burke Sp. Conc. Amer. 87 That the said Chief Justice and other Judges..shall hold his and their office..and shall not be removed therefrom but when [etc.]. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. xii. (1896) I. 511 note, None of the sheriffs now removed were employed again.
†c. To raise (a siege). Obs. (See raise v. 30.)
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 329 William de Reeth..behiȝt þe kyng þat he wolde..bryng þe oost of Scottes..to remeve þe seege..of Berwyk. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxv. 257 This same yere the king with a grete host entred the see to remeue the sege of rochel. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. iv. iii, Let us..hasten to remove Damascus' siege. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 245 He was sent..to remove the siege of the City of Rochel in France.
†d. To clear off, dispose of. Obs. rare.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 131 In the high tops whereof were balists fitly placed, which removed the defendants that kept lower. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 168 Having thus refuted, or upon good ground removed som Opinions of antient Lawyers.
4. a. To take away (from a person), to relieve or free one from, some feeling, quality, condition, etc., esp. one of a bad or detrimental kind; † to do away with, put an end to (a practice).
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 691 And for-thy wolde I fayn remeve Thy wrong conceyte. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 108 Gouerne hem wel, and..remowe fro hem all þaire wronges. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 196 Wherbi is excludid and wilned of Crist to be removed, that eny man schulde worschipe God bi eny outward ymagis. Ibid., Crist in the same chapiter..removed pilgrimagis. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 74 Lord..Remufe fra me all frawardness. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 72 She moues me not, or not remoues at least Affections edge in me. 1610― Temp. ii. ii. 79 If hee haue neuer drunke wine afore, it will goe neere to remoue his Fit. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 290 When they see Law can discover sin, but not remove. 1770Junius Lett. xxxix. (1788) 217 In the repeal of those acts..the parliament have done everything but remove the offence. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 260 That general debility..which time and attention will in all probability very speedily remove. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §6. 405 The death of Norfolk and Northumberland removed the dread of civil war.
†b. To put away (a feeling, thought, etc.) from oneself; to set aside. Obs.
1388Wyclif Eccl. xi. 10 Do thou awei ire fro thin herte, and remoue thou malice fro thy fleisch. c1440Alph. Tales 106 It is impossible to remofe ill thoghts fro þe with other mens prayers. 1535Coverdale Eccl. xii. 1 Put away displeasure out of thy hert, & remoue euell from thy body. [1611 (xi. 10) Therefore remoue sorrow from thy heart, and put away euill from thy flesh]. 1703Earl of Orrery As you Find it iii. i, You had best remove this Scruple quickly.
†5. To change, transform, into something. Obs.—1
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xli. (1869) 25 And therfore I haue wrethe in myn herte whan ye remeeuen [F. muez] it in to quik flesh.
†6. To go away from, to quit (a place or position). Obs. rare.
c1440Generydes 3223 Too all his ost he gave a speciall charge,..They shuld remeve that place ij myle large. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7514 Ane [bishop] þe whilk by symony þe se gat; with in sex moneths remoued he þat.
†7. To move or stir (a part of the body). Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 262 b/2 Whan the tyraunte sawe that he remeuyd yet his lyppes..[he] smote hym wyth hys knyf to the herte. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxix. 606 The church that day was so full of noblenesse, that a man might nat a remoued his fete. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xxi. 58 b, Pulling and remouing your ioyntes as before is said.
†8.
a. To move or persuade (one) out of or from a purpose or resolve. Also without const. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 184/2 He wold haue comen unto our presence but that hys conscyence hath remeuyd hym. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxxi. 314 They coude nat remoue him out of that purpose. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 24 b, All the tounes round about, were permanent and stiffe on the parte of kyng Henry, and could not be remoued. 1647May Hist. Parl. i. viii. 94 But the King was hard to be removed from his resolution. 1654tr. Martini's Conq. China 167 Nor would he ever be removed from this unhumane sentence.
†b. To move, affect (the heart). Obs. rare—1.
1600Lyly Love's Metam. iv. ii, Men, whose loues are built on truth, and whose hearts are remoued by curtesie.
II. intr.
9. a. To go away or depart from a place; to move off to somewhere else.
α13..K. Alis. 7238 He with-seith alle homage..And bad you remeve out of his lond. a1400–50Alexander 1975 Remefe agayn to þi realm or þou sall it rewe. c1450Merlin 61 They seide ‘Sir, we haue no talents to remeve fro hens’. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. viii. xviii. xij/2 The mone makyth a man vnstable chaungeable & remeuynge abowte fro place to place.
βc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Mary Egypt) 1090 Þu sal na mycht haf to remofe [from the abbey]. c1400Rowland & O. 730 The Oste remowede & forthe thay ȝede,..To þaire Iournaye þay hye. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 315 Wallace off France a gudly leiff can tak. The kyng..Gret langour tuk quhen Wallace can ramuff. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 378 From thence they remoued to Saint Albons, and came thether on Christmas Euen. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xv. 16 [He] remooued..to assiege the castle of Tripoli. 1629J. Cole Of Death 51 Hee would rather chuse to stay here, and live in the same [earthly pleasures], then remove to enjoy the heavenly. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 198 He said, he'd remove into another room. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 28 He..begs a Certificate, when he removes from the Ship. 1796Hist. Ned Evans II. 104 From which few ever remove but to torture.
b. spec. To change the place of one's (temporary or permanent) residence; also of a tenant, to quit a house or holding.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 301 A new þing þat noyeth nedy men and oþer, Whanne realles remeveth and ridith þoru tounes. 1478Paston Lett. III. 229 My Lord of Suffolk is remevyd in to Suffolk..and my lady purposed to remeff after on thys day. 1530Palsgr. 685/1, I remeve, as an armye or the trayne of a prince or gret man removeth from one place to an other. 1555Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 494/1 The warning of all tennentis and vtheris to flit and remoue fra landis mylnis fischingis and possessiouns quhat⁓sumeuer. 1633Ford Broken H. ii. i, This house, methinks, stands somewhat too much inward; we'll remove Nearer the court. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 57 Proserpine..importun'd by Ceres to remove, Prefers the Fields below to those above. 1722De Foe Plague (1754) 6 This Frenchman..was one who, having liv'd in Long-Acre..had removed for fear of the Distemper. 1756Act of Sederunt 14 Dec., Where the tenant hath not obliged himself to remove without warning. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 848 In order to authorise judicial removing, the tenant..must be warned by the landlord to remove. 1855Brewster Newton II. xxi. 252 Newton received this letter when he was removing from Jermyn Street to Chelsea.
†c. To shift one's place or position. Obs.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7365 In helle salle be þan swa gret thrang, Þat nane may remow for other ne gang. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 861 The lenth of ane rude braid he gart him remufe. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lv. 186 He remoued no more for the stroke then it had ben a strong walle. 1562J. Rowbotham Playe of Cheasts A v b, Their office is not to remoue but in necessitie, and chiefelye for the succoure of theyr kynge. 1595Saviolo Practise H ij b, Remoue with your right foot a little back toward his left side. 1656Beale Chess 8 The King removeth but one house at a time.
10. a. Of things: To change place; to move off or away; to depart, disappear, etc.
1423Jas. I Kingis Q. clxxxviii, In perfyte Ioy, that neuir may remufe. 1481Caxton Myrr. i. vi. 29 There cheualrye contynued long, And frothens after it remeuid in to Fraunce. 1535Coverdale Isa. liv. 10 The mountaynes shall remoue, & the hilles shal fall downe. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lii. ix, My trust on his true love Truly attending Shall never thence remove. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. ii. §17 Those particles will necessarily remove into that empty space. 1704Pope Autumn 29 Ye trees that fade when autumn-heats remove. a1792Burns Posie vii, I'll swear..That to my latest draught o' life the band shall ne'er remove. 1839–48Bailey Festus xviii. 174 And sigh That truth from that Heaven should ever remove. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxxvi, But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove.
†b. To change into something. Obs. rare—1.
1674Playford Skill Mus. iii. 5 That which is an eighth shall remove into a fifth.
†11. To move, stir; to be in motion. Obs.
a1400–50Alexander 2943 Sir Dary..Rerys hym vpp & remevys in hys sete riche. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 37 She might not stere nor remeue more thanne a stone. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxiv. (Percy Soc.) 108 These are the v. wyttes remeuing inwardly. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 251 The head thus being above, the body beneath in water, wagging and removing to and fro. 1601Hakluyt tr. Galvano's Discov. 46 There is further a kinde of herbe there growing, which followeth the sunne, and remooveth after it. |