单词 | movent |
释义 | † moventadj.n. 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). < adj.n.1644 |
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