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self-moved, a.
[self- 3 b.]
Moved of itself without external agency.
a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. II. 41 What is self⁓mov'd is unconfin'd. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xiv, As if self⁓moved, the mystic curtain arose. 1845Lewes Hist. Philos. I. 69 The Soul, being a self-moved monad, is One.
So † self-ˈmovable a. = self-motive; † -ˈmovably adv.; self-ˈmovement = self-motion; † self-ˈmovent a. = self-motive; † self-ˈmover, something that moves itself; an automaton; † self-ˈmoving vbl. n., (a) spontaneous motion; (b) an automaton; self-ˈmoving ppl. a., moving spontaneously or automatically, capable of self-motion.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxvi, All these be substances *self-moveable. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 565 Beings in their own nature Selfmoveable, and Active.
Ibid. 582 Πάντα ψυχικῶς, All things Animally; that is, *Self⁓movably, Actively and Productively.
1883F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic 448 Want of individuality in the datum that we began with, absence of *self-movement and impossibility of self-development, this is the first defect. 1885New Engl. Dict., Automaton... Something which has the power of..self⁓movement. 1905Athenæum 1 July 21/2 Self-movement, which has been suggested [as the real touchstone of life].
1701Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. i. 5 To suppose Body to be Self-Existent..is as absurd, as to suppose it to be *Self-Movent.
1648Wilkins Math. Magick ii. i. [heading], The divers kinds of Automata, or *Self-movers. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. iv. ii. §8 The..Essence and Idea of this Self-Mover, Watch or Horologe. 1740Law Answ. Trapp's Disc. Wks. 1756 VI. 305 Every intelligent Creature is its own Self-mover.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. ii. 26–37 Their sinnes come of nothing else than their owne *selfemouing. 1587― De Mornay vii. 100 Things..which men as thou art doe deeme to be without end, as straunge Milles and Trindles, and such other kind of selfmouings.
1607J. Davies Summa Totalis E, Siluer *selfe-mouing we call Siluer-quick. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. ii. (1687) 64/2 That God is an infinite self-moving mind. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. iv. 169 A great Automaton or self-moving engine. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. i. 115 Allowing Matter to be self-existent and self-moving. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 236 A self-moving valve. 1837Keith Bot. Lex. 341 The self-moving leaves of Hedysarum gyrans. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §16 Moveable and self-moving things that could be carried or brought into court. |