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单词 movent
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moventadj.n.

Forms: 1600s mouent, 1600s–1800s movent.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin movent-, movēns, movēre.
Etymology: < classical Latin movent-, movēns (used as adjective and noun: see note), present participle of movēre move v.; compare -ent suffix.Classical Latin movēns is used as an adjective with the senses: ‘active, dynamic’ (of pleasure, in a philosophical context), ‘restless’, ‘stirring or affecting’, and in legal contexts of movable property. The neuter plural moventia is used as a noun to denote movable property; in post-classical Latin the singular is used as a noun to denote a thing that imparts motion (from 13th cent. in British sources).
Obsolete.
A. adj.
1. That moves or is moved; moving.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > [adjective] > moving
stirringc950
movablea1382
swayingc1400
moving?a1425
shifting1479
mobile1490
unquiet1539
movent1644
impacifica1657
traversing1785
unstationary1832
unsettled1845
shifty1884
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. ix. 73 The force of the velocity is equall to a reciprocall force of weight in the vertue mouent.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 197 The smooth wing'd Insects have the strongest muscles or movent parts of their wings.
a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 292 Whoever observes them, even in their most quiet State, shall discern their Fins more or less movent and employ'd.
a1835 J. Hogg Wks. Ettrick Shepherd (1876) 262 After the voice a whirlwind blew, Before it every fragment flew Of movent nature.
2. Law. Designating a clause of a charter which explains the reasons for the granting of the charter. rare.
ΚΠ
1837 T. D. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum Pref. 23 Comprised in the premisses of a charter, and generally following the salutation, occurs the Movent Clause, which is here so called because it states the reasons moving the king to make the grant.
B. n.
A thing that moves or is moved.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > [noun] > person or thing that moves
mover1593
budgera1616
movent1651
the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > motive
achesounc1230
encheason1297
quarrel1340
occasionc1384
springa1398
motive?a1439
motionc1475
springa1500
respect1528
regard1579
moment1611
movent1651
umbrage1664
what makes (someone) tick1931
1651 T. Vaughan Second Wash 33 The movent then is necessitated to move from part to part, that is to say successively, for motion is a successive action.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xv. 155 I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.
1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 1 Physicians can never discharge their Duty with greater Applause than by contributing their aid to popular Diseases, which at this season is the prime movent of these Meditations.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Movent or Mover, that which moves, or gives motion.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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