movern.¹

Brit.

/ˈmuːvə/, U.S.

/ˈmuvər/

Forms: see move v. and -er suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 mowvar.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: move v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < move v. + -er suffix¹. Compare Old French mouveeur (early 14th cent.), Middle French mouveur (late 14th cent.).

a. A person who sets or keeps something in motion, spec. (also First Mover) God, regarded as the motive force of the universe. Cf. prime mover n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > [noun] > making movable or setting in motion > one who

moverc1385

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > in philosophy

moverc1385

motor1447

First Causer1526

union1565

monad1642

monas1768

over-soul1841

ens realissimum1847

socius1890

ens necessarium1900

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > first or chief

moverc1385

motor1600

prime mover1633

actuator1652

apostle1810

prophet1842

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2987 The firste moeuere of the cause aboue.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 105^v Heuene..meoviþ by a mouare [L. a motore] þat is endeles myȝte, þat is, by god himsilf.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 81 He that mover ys of al.

a1500 Ratis Raving 659 That is to say the fyrst moware That gouernys al thing les & mare.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. iii. 19 Oh thou eternall mouer of the heauens.

a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 121/2 His legs, though litle ones, Yet movers of a masse of understanding.

1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 198 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. That universal Spirit of Nature is most certainly the Mover of the Matter of the World, and the Modifier thereof.

1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 10 How could these atoms move without a mover.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 120 The whole dreadful machine [sc. the army] was now in motion,—..the eye of the mover superintending and understanding all.

1879 L. Shepherd tr. P. Guéranger Liturg. Year: Time after Pentecost I. iii. 11 The soul yields herself up..to the impulse of the divine Mover.

1977 C. G. Wolff Feast of Words (1978) ii. 71 There is no thoroughgoing sense of a malevolent God or an indifferent cosmic mover.

1988 P. Monette Borrowed Time v. 107 He was tireless and unfailing, a mover of mountains.

†b. In full first mover. The outermost of the concentric spheres in Aristotelian cosmology, which transmitted its motion to those spheres below it that carried the stars and planets; = primum mobile n. 1. Also figurative. Obsolete.Adopted by Ptolemy and those who in the Middle Ages took over and modified his astronomical system, when it was taken to be the ninth sphere (the eighth being the sphere of fixed stars). In the later Middle Ages and after it was often taken to be the tenth, since an extra sphere was added to account for trepidation (trepidation n. 3a).Cf. mobile n.¹ 1, motor n. 1b, movable adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > primary or first cause

First Cause1393

primum mobile1548

movera1550

impulsive causea1575

primus motor1579

beginning1587

first mobile1645

causa causans1659

first mover1711

prime mover1795

leader1805

the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > primum mobile

first firmamentc1386

first movablec1400

first-movingc1400

first mobilea1475

primum mobilea1475

first movera1550

primovant1570

motor1586

primovable1625

highest movable1669

a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) 2959 (MED) The virtew of ye mover of ye orbe [v.r. mouer of worlde] ys formall, The virtew of ye viijth spere is here Instrumentall.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 77 From the tower of the highest heauen, called the first moouer, vnto the center of the earth.

1617 F. Bacon Speech in Star-Chamber in Resuscitatio (1657) 87 Do therefore, as they [sc. the planets] do; Move alwayes and be carried, with the Motion of your first Mover, which is your Soveraign.

1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iv. i. 24 So Orbs, from the first mover, motion take.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. First Mover in the old Astronomy, is the Primum Mobile.

c. More fully first mover. An initial source (natural or mechanical) of activity, esp. movement; spec. a mechanism which converts energy from a natural source into motion; = prime mover n. 2. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > [noun]

vicea1400

mover1626

primum mobile1663

machine1704

prime mover1795

leader1805

generator1823

energizer1891

the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > primary or first cause

First Cause1393

primum mobile1548

movera1550

impulsive causea1575

primus motor1579

beginning1587

first mobile1645

causa causans1659

first mover1711

prime mover1795

leader1805

1626 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1894) VIII. 355/2 Presertim..machinam organicam motum perpetuum producentem αεικινητον lie mower nuncupatam.

1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance v. §5. 113 In your Automata, there is one originall spring or wheele, that giveth motion to sundry lesser and subordinate movers.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 108 The Main-mast is the first Mover.

1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 471 The treasury became literally moneyless and all purposes depending on this mover, came to a stand.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 402 When a fly is used merely as a regulator, it should be near the first mover.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 88/1 Of water as a first mover.

1998 Muscle News No. 33. 17/6 When you do the bench press the main mover is the chest and secondary muscle groups used are the front delts and triceps.

a. A person who incites others to action; a promoter, instigator, or originator. Frequently with modifying word, as first, chief, etc. See also prime mover n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates

prickera1382

stirrerc1384

enticerc1386

exciter1387

risera1398

solicitor1412

erterc1440

prompter1440

stirrer?1533

motionerc1535

author1546

onsetter1549

stinger1552

setter-on1560

incentor1570

incensora1575

mover1578

whetter1579

out-hounder1596

hounder1597

egger on1598

inciter1598

instigator1598

urger1598

motive1600

fomenter1607

inflamer1609

fetcher in?1611

provokera1616

putter-ona1616

monitor1616

spurrer1632

outputter1639

poddera1640

commoter1646

impulsor1653

shaker and mover1874

agent provocateur1888

impeller1889

sooler1935

spark plug1941

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 4453 (MED) O cruel Mars..In mordre and deth ay is þi delit..First meuer of anger and of hate.

1459 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 132 That Thom of Balcaske and Wylle Bulle was the mufaris of that bargan.

1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. Aiij The pryncipal & fyrst meuer to vertue in our soules.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/1 The duke was the first mouer of the protectoure to this matter.

1578 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 20 The movaris of his majestie to attempt the same governament..hes sensyne..dissobeyit his majesteis chairgis.

1626 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1871) I. 9 Taking ordour with all such persones as shall be moweres and raiseres of the saides tumultes.

1704 D. Defoe in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1897) App. iv. 83 Providence, which I humbly recognize as the first mover of your thoughts in my favour.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Apr. (1948) I. 249 They will want him prodigiously in the House of Commons, of which he is the great mover.

a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 3 He..became a considerable Man in the County Affairs, was a chief Mover of all publick Spirited Undertakings, for the County or Town of Northampton & his own Village.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 15 Who is the mover of the party?

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxvii. 17 The chief movers of the rebellion made their escape.

1919 Eng. Hist. Rev. July 440 An unfortunate desire for immediate practical and material utility in some of the movers for working-men's education.

1991 D. Urwin Community of Europe 31 Even Jean Monnet, the mover of much that was to occur in the future, saw Britain as the nucleus of a European Community.

†b. A thing which is the cause of an effect, etc.; a cause, stimulus. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun]

causec1315

occasiona1387

mover?a1450

theme1594

inducement1605

quality1609

rise1641

eductor1794

make-way1894

?a1450 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (BL Add. 12056) (1894) 9 Ȝif a surgien knowe noȝt þe sciens of Elementis, whiche þat buþ furst Meverys of naturel þynges & of dyuerse lymes, he may noȝt knowe sciense of coniunctiounes.

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. 1184 (MED) The causers and movers first of loue Been the eyen and eeris first of freall man.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. v. 9 These most poysonous Compounds, Which are the moouers of a languishing death.

c. colloquial (originally U.S.). A person who initiates events and influences people; a dynamic and influential person. Chiefly in mover and shaker (after quot. 1873).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > initiator

openerOE

first beginninga1382

first beginner?1473

starter1662

initiator1676

mover1873

launcher1897

initiand1969

1873 A. O'Shaughnessy in Appletons' Jrnl. 4 Oct. 440/3 Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.

1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 431/2 I know that Chicagoans boast that theirs is the most mixed population in the country, but the makers and movers of Chicago are Americans.

1972 F. Knebel Dark Horse (1973) ix. 124 The rich movers and shakers..always manage to manipulate the Congress for their own benefit and screw the rest of us.

1987 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 18 Jan. 102/2 Eddie Murphy is back doing what he does best—playing a streetwise mover caught up in events beyond him.

2000 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 21/5 The Monte Carlo hotel restaurant [is] filled with actors and assorted movers and shakers attending the annual television festival.

3. A person who or thing which moves or is in motion. Usually with modifying word indicating the manner or speed of movement, as fast, slow, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > [noun] > person or thing that moves

mover1593

budgera1616

movent1651

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciiij^v O fairest mouer on this mortall round.

1597 J. S. Cert. Worthye Manvscr. Poems sig. C3 O slow malicious meeuer, thou cursed Saturne.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 76 There is necessary both these, viz. the firm stander, and the strong mover; the upper and the nether milstone.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 22 Nor is there any Ground to think..that his Eyes are the Seers or his Feet the Movers.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Scorpion Water Scorpion, scorpio palustris,..is a very thin and light little creature, yet is but a very slow mover.

1868 G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose I. i. 3 The lightest mover that ever turned a partner's head in a waltz.

1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt v. 107 Though elegant in form, this buck is but a poor mover.

1955 Times 13 May 3/5 A very taking bay mare who is..rather reminiscent in conformation of Bambi, a lovely mover.

1989 M. Meyer Not Prince Hamlet iii. 34 He was the best student actor I have seen: tall and handsome, a fine mover with a superb voice.

4. A person who moves a proposition, proposal, etc., in a deliberative assembly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > one who puts forward

purposer1481

propounder1561

proponerc1580

proposer1585

proponent1588

mover1604

Marxoid1987

1604 House of Commons Orig. Jrnls. 23 Mar. 3 f. 44 A third grave person..moveth that nothing might be offered in a generall and vanishyng Speech, without a Bill ready framed and exhibited to the House by the mover.

1639 W. Laud Diary 5 Dec. in Hist. Troubles (1695) 57 The first Movers to it [sc. the King's resolution] were my Lord Deputy..and my self.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 525/1 Therefore we must suppose, that without any Regard to the Mover, the Parliament approved of the Motion.

1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 27 May (1812) I. 268 The house had now heard the reasons urged by the Honourable Mover and Seconder, in support of a motion so extraordinary.

1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. lxix. 451 In the absence of the mover of the resolution, the eyes of every one turned towards its seconder, John Adams.

1955 Times 13 Aug. 2/6 The mover of the resolution used traditional arguments about the extent of disease and neurosis among engineering workers.

1993 J. Critchley Floating Voter (BNC) 150 The mover of the platform's motion..was, perhaps, a shade patronising.

5. U.S. A migrant, a settler; spec. (a) a settler migrating westwards; (b) a tenant farmer who resettles repeatedly as land becomes exhausted. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun]

pilgrimlOE

travellera1387

farandman14..

passengera1450

walkerc1450

voyager1477

viator?1504

journeyer1566

viadant1632

wayman1638

thwarter1693

migrant1760

inside1799

mover1810

starter1817

itinerarian1822

trekker1851

farer1881

passager1917

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > migrating farmer

mover1810

1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 17 Nov. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 47 We are..near a tavern which is fill'd with movers & waggoners.

1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 53 The other tavern was so completely thronged with movers, that [etc.].

1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (1850) II. 109 On board were many ‘movers’ going to Texas with their slaves.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xx. 327 Reluctantly the ‘movers’ consented to his remaining for the night.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon 434 The ‘movers’..lease, clean out and gut a place in several years, and then move on.

1944 W. Blair Tall Tale Amer. 100 Instead of selling the seedlings from these nurseries..he'd..give them to the movers—free.

1945 J. L. Marshall Santa Fe 230 ‘Boomers’ and ‘movers’ tried again and again to take up land, filtering down from Kansas and up from Texas along the Santa Fe track.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. i. 11 He'd always been a mover... ‘We're luffin' off to God's country, Squaw,’ he'd tell Cora.

6. Chiefly North American. A person employed to move furniture and other household goods from one residence, etc., to another; a remover. Cf. earlier house mover n. at house n.¹ and int. Compounds 10.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who move furniture

house mover1834

remover1861

mover1894

furniture-remover1895

removalist1904

moving man1922

1894 Boston Directory 1944 J. W. Cook & Son,..movers of pianofortes, furniture, etc.

1943 B. Smith Tree grows in Brooklyn xv. 117 Pianos had to be bundled up, roped and hoisted..with much shouting, arm-waving, and brass-hatting on the part of the boss mover.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 3/9 ‘The honorable gentleman will be glad to know that I will be getting out as soon as I can get a mover,’ the Prime Minister replied.

1999 C. B. Divakaruni Sister of my Heart ii. xv. 278 Mother rushes down the stairs, calling out to the movers to be sure to use the proper padding before they load her mahogany almirah.

7. With modifying word indicating speed, as fast, slow, etc.: a commodity or product which sells in the manner specified. Cf. sense 3.

ΚΠ

1971 R. Roberts Classic Slum vi. 100 Swinging freely from shelves, the ‘slow movers’ gathered layer after layer of dust.

1988 Pract. Photogr. Apr. 19 With its 49 mm filter thread..and a price of £99.90 it should be a quick mover.

1998 Transport News Dec. 35/2 The pulses (lentils, peas, barley, etc.) are big movers in the winter when soups become popular.

8. Stock Market. A company whose shares rise or fall in value. Also: a share whose value rises or falls.

ΚΠ

1988 Times 28 Oct. 28/8 Look at all the big electronics companies during the summer. All have been movers, except Plessey. It is long overdue for a rally.

1991 Argus (Cape Town) 11 Apr. 14/3 Among the few movers gold shares Freegold and Kloof shed 25c each.

1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 8 Feb. 62/1 Meanwhile, IBM plunged 43.4 percent to an 11-year low. Fund managers who shine in that kind of market will be those who can spot the real movers.

Compounds

mover wagon n. U.S. (now historical) a wagon of the type used by emigrants travelling to the American West in the 19th cent.

ΚΠ

1846 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 277/1 Christianity..may be found in every mover's wagon, and every steamboat cabin.]

1891 Cent. Mag. Nov. 97/2 I ain't seen them mover wagons before.

1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 424/2 As a child, I saw, on this same old trail, an endless stream of ‘mover wagons’, canvas-topped prairie schooners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mover
释义	movern.¹ Brit. /ˈmuːvə/, U.S. /ˈmuvər/ Forms: see move v. and -er suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 mowvar. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: move v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < move v. + -er suffix¹. Compare Old French mouveeur (early 14th cent.), Middle French mouveur (late 14th cent.). 1. a. A person who sets or keeps something in motion, spec. (also First Mover) God, regarded as the motive force of the universe. Cf. prime mover n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [noun] > making movable or setting in motion > one who moverc1385 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > in philosophy moverc1385 motor1447 First Causer1526 union1565 monad1642 monas1768 over-soul1841 ens realissimum1847 socius1890 ens necessarium1900 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > first or chief moverc1385 motor1600 prime mover1633 actuator1652 apostle1810 prophet1842 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2987 The firste moeuere of the cause aboue. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 105^v Heuene..meoviþ by a mouare [L. a motore] þat is endeles myȝte, þat is, by god himsilf. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 81 He that mover ys of al. a1500 Ratis Raving 659 That is to say the fyrst moware That gouernys al thing les & mare. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. iii. 19 Oh thou eternall mouer of the heauens. a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 121/2 His legs, though litle ones, Yet movers of a masse of understanding. 1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 198 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. That universal Spirit of Nature is most certainly the Mover of the Matter of the World, and the Modifier thereof. 1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 10 How could these atoms move without a mover. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 120 The whole dreadful machine [sc. the army] was now in motion,—..the eye of the mover superintending and understanding all. 1879 L. Shepherd tr. P. Guéranger Liturg. Year: Time after Pentecost I. iii. 11 The soul yields herself up..to the impulse of the divine Mover. 1977 C. G. Wolff Feast of Words (1978) ii. 71 There is no thoroughgoing sense of a malevolent God or an indifferent cosmic mover. 1988 P. Monette Borrowed Time v. 107 He was tireless and unfailing, a mover of mountains. †b. In full first mover. The outermost of the concentric spheres in Aristotelian cosmology, which transmitted its motion to those spheres below it that carried the stars and planets; = primum mobile n. 1. Also figurative. Obsolete.Adopted by Ptolemy and those who in the Middle Ages took over and modified his astronomical system, when it was taken to be the ninth sphere (the eighth being the sphere of fixed stars). In the later Middle Ages and after it was often taken to be the tenth, since an extra sphere was added to account for trepidation (trepidation n. 3a).Cf. mobile n.¹ 1, motor n. 1b, movable adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > primary or first cause First Cause1393 primum mobile1548 movera1550 impulsive causea1575 primus motor1579 beginning1587 first mobile1645 causa causans1659 first mover1711 prime mover1795 leader1805 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > primum mobile first firmamentc1386 first movablec1400 first-movingc1400 first mobilea1475 primum mobilea1475 first movera1550 primovant1570 motor1586 primovable1625 highest movable1669 a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) 2959 (MED) The virtew of ye mover of ye orbe [v.r. mouer of worlde] ys formall, The virtew of ye viijth spere is here Instrumentall. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 77 From the tower of the highest heauen, called the first moouer, vnto the center of the earth. 1617 F. Bacon Speech in Star-Chamber in Resuscitatio (1657) 87 Do therefore, as they [sc. the planets] do; Move alwayes and be carried, with the Motion of your first Mover, which is your Soveraign. 1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iv. i. 24 So Orbs, from the first mover, motion take. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. First Mover in the old Astronomy, is the Primum Mobile. c. More fully first mover. An initial source (natural or mechanical) of activity, esp. movement; spec. a mechanism which converts energy from a natural source into motion; = prime mover n. 2. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > [noun] vicea1400 mover1626 primum mobile1663 machine1704 prime mover1795 leader1805 generator1823 energizer1891 the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > primary or first cause First Cause1393 primum mobile1548 movera1550 impulsive causea1575 primus motor1579 beginning1587 first mobile1645 causa causans1659 first mover1711 prime mover1795 leader1805 1626 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1894) VIII. 355/2 Presertim..machinam organicam motum perpetuum producentem αεικινητον lie mower nuncupatam. 1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance v. §5. 113 In your Automata, there is one originall spring or wheele, that giveth motion to sundry lesser and subordinate movers. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 108 The Main-mast is the first Mover. 1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 471 The treasury became literally moneyless and all purposes depending on this mover, came to a stand. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 402 When a fly is used merely as a regulator, it should be near the first mover. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 88/1 Of water as a first mover. 1998 Muscle News No. 33. 17/6 When you do the bench press the main mover is the chest and secondary muscle groups used are the front delts and triceps. 2. a. A person who incites others to action; a promoter, instigator, or originator. Frequently with modifying word, as first, chief, etc. See also prime mover n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 4453 (MED) O cruel Mars..In mordre and deth ay is þi delit..First meuer of anger and of hate. 1459 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 132 That Thom of Balcaske and Wylle Bulle was the mufaris of that bargan. 1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. Aiij The pryncipal & fyrst meuer to vertue in our soules. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/1 The duke was the first mouer of the protectoure to this matter. 1578 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 20 The movaris of his majestie to attempt the same governament..hes sensyne..dissobeyit his majesteis chairgis. 1626 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1871) I. 9 Taking ordour with all such persones as shall be moweres and raiseres of the saides tumultes. 1704 D. Defoe in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1897) App. iv. 83 Providence, which I humbly recognize as the first mover of your thoughts in my favour. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Apr. (1948) I. 249 They will want him prodigiously in the House of Commons, of which he is the great mover. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 3 He..became a considerable Man in the County Affairs, was a chief Mover of all publick Spirited Undertakings, for the County or Town of Northampton & his own Village. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 15 Who is the mover of the party? 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxvii. 17 The chief movers of the rebellion made their escape. 1919 Eng. Hist. Rev. July 440 An unfortunate desire for immediate practical and material utility in some of the movers for working-men's education. 1991 D. Urwin Community of Europe 31 Even Jean Monnet, the mover of much that was to occur in the future, saw Britain as the nucleus of a European Community. †b. A thing which is the cause of an effect, etc.; a cause, stimulus. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] causec1315 occasiona1387 mover?a1450 theme1594 inducement1605 quality1609 rise1641 eductor1794 make-way1894 ?a1450 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (BL Add. 12056) (1894) 9 Ȝif a surgien knowe noȝt þe sciens of Elementis, whiche þat buþ furst Meverys of naturel þynges & of dyuerse lymes, he may noȝt knowe sciense of coniunctiounes. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. 1184 (MED) The causers and movers first of loue Been the eyen and eeris first of freall man. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. v. 9 These most poysonous Compounds, Which are the moouers of a languishing death. View more context for this quotation c. colloquial (originally U.S.). A person who initiates events and influences people; a dynamic and influential person. Chiefly in mover and shaker (after quot. 1873). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > initiator openerOE first beginninga1382 first beginner?1473 starter1662 initiator1676 mover1873 launcher1897 initiand1969 1873 A. O'Shaughnessy in Appletons' Jrnl. 4 Oct. 440/3 Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. 1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 431/2 I know that Chicagoans boast that theirs is the most mixed population in the country, but the makers and movers of Chicago are Americans. 1972 F. Knebel Dark Horse (1973) ix. 124 The rich movers and shakers..always manage to manipulate the Congress for their own benefit and screw the rest of us. 1987 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 18 Jan. 102/2 Eddie Murphy is back doing what he does best—playing a streetwise mover caught up in events beyond him. 2000 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 21/5 The Monte Carlo hotel restaurant [is] filled with actors and assorted movers and shakers attending the annual television festival. 3. A person who or thing which moves or is in motion. Usually with modifying word indicating the manner or speed of movement, as fast, slow, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [noun] > person or thing that moves mover1593 budgera1616 movent1651 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciiij^v O fairest mouer on this mortall round. View more context for this quotation 1597 J. S. Cert. Worthye Manvscr. Poems sig. C3 O slow malicious meeuer, thou cursed Saturne. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 76 There is necessary both these, viz. the firm stander, and the strong mover; the upper and the nether milstone. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 22 Nor is there any Ground to think..that his Eyes are the Seers or his Feet the Movers. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Scorpion Water Scorpion, scorpio palustris,..is a very thin and light little creature, yet is but a very slow mover. 1868 G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose I. i. 3 The lightest mover that ever turned a partner's head in a waltz. 1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt v. 107 Though elegant in form, this buck is but a poor mover. 1955 Times 13 May 3/5 A very taking bay mare who is..rather reminiscent in conformation of Bambi, a lovely mover. 1989 M. Meyer Not Prince Hamlet iii. 34 He was the best student actor I have seen: tall and handsome, a fine mover with a superb voice. 4. A person who moves a proposition, proposal, etc., in a deliberative assembly. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > one who puts forward purposer1481 propounder1561 proponerc1580 proposer1585 proponent1588 mover1604 Marxoid1987 1604 House of Commons Orig. Jrnls. 23 Mar. 3 f. 44 A third grave person..moveth that nothing might be offered in a generall and vanishyng Speech, without a Bill ready framed and exhibited to the House by the mover. 1639 W. Laud Diary 5 Dec. in Hist. Troubles (1695) 57 The first Movers to it [sc. the King's resolution] were my Lord Deputy..and my self. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 525/1 Therefore we must suppose, that without any Regard to the Mover, the Parliament approved of the Motion. 1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 27 May (1812) I. 268 The house had now heard the reasons urged by the Honourable Mover and Seconder, in support of a motion so extraordinary. 1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. lxix. 451 In the absence of the mover of the resolution, the eyes of every one turned towards its seconder, John Adams. 1955 Times 13 Aug. 2/6 The mover of the resolution used traditional arguments about the extent of disease and neurosis among engineering workers. 1993 J. Critchley Floating Voter (BNC) 150 The mover of the platform's motion..was, perhaps, a shade patronising. 5. U.S. A migrant, a settler; spec. (a) a settler migrating westwards; (b) a tenant farmer who resettles repeatedly as land becomes exhausted. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] pilgrimlOE travellera1387 farandman14.. passengera1450 walkerc1450 voyager1477 viator?1504 journeyer1566 viadant1632 wayman1638 thwarter1693 migrant1760 inside1799 mover1810 starter1817 itinerarian1822 trekker1851 farer1881 passager1917 the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > migrating farmer mover1810 1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 17 Nov. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 47 We are..near a tavern which is fill'd with movers & waggoners. 1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 53 The other tavern was so completely thronged with movers, that [etc.]. 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (1850) II. 109 On board were many ‘movers’ going to Texas with their slaves. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xx. 327 Reluctantly the ‘movers’ consented to his remaining for the night. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 434 The ‘movers’..lease, clean out and gut a place in several years, and then move on. 1944 W. Blair Tall Tale Amer. 100 Instead of selling the seedlings from these nurseries..he'd..give them to the movers—free. 1945 J. L. Marshall Santa Fe 230 ‘Boomers’ and ‘movers’ tried again and again to take up land, filtering down from Kansas and up from Texas along the Santa Fe track. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. i. 11 He'd always been a mover... ‘We're luffin' off to God's country, Squaw,’ he'd tell Cora. 6. Chiefly North American. A person employed to move furniture and other household goods from one residence, etc., to another; a remover. Cf. earlier house mover n. at house n.¹ and int. Compounds 10. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who move furniture house mover1834 remover1861 mover1894 furniture-remover1895 removalist1904 moving man1922 1894 Boston Directory 1944 J. W. Cook & Son,..movers of pianofortes, furniture, etc. 1943 B. Smith Tree grows in Brooklyn xv. 117 Pianos had to be bundled up, roped and hoisted..with much shouting, arm-waving, and brass-hatting on the part of the boss mover. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 3/9 ‘The honorable gentleman will be glad to know that I will be getting out as soon as I can get a mover,’ the Prime Minister replied. 1999 C. B. Divakaruni Sister of my Heart ii. xv. 278 Mother rushes down the stairs, calling out to the movers to be sure to use the proper padding before they load her mahogany almirah. 7. With modifying word indicating speed, as fast, slow, etc.: a commodity or product which sells in the manner specified. Cf. sense 3. ΚΠ 1971 R. Roberts Classic Slum vi. 100 Swinging freely from shelves, the ‘slow movers’ gathered layer after layer of dust. 1988 Pract. Photogr. Apr. 19 With its 49 mm filter thread..and a price of £99.90 it should be a quick mover. 1998 Transport News Dec. 35/2 The pulses (lentils, peas, barley, etc.) are big movers in the winter when soups become popular. 8. Stock Market. A company whose shares rise or fall in value. Also: a share whose value rises or falls. ΚΠ 1988 Times 28 Oct. 28/8 Look at all the big electronics companies during the summer. All have been movers, except Plessey. It is long overdue for a rally. 1991 Argus (Cape Town) 11 Apr. 14/3 Among the few movers gold shares Freegold and Kloof shed 25c each. 1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 8 Feb. 62/1 Meanwhile, IBM plunged 43.4 percent to an 11-year low. Fund managers who shine in that kind of market will be those who can spot the real movers. Compounds mover wagon n. U.S. (now historical) a wagon of the type used by emigrants travelling to the American West in the 19th cent. ΚΠ 1846 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 277/1 Christianity..may be found in every mover's wagon, and every steamboat cabin.] 1891 Cent. Mag. Nov. 97/2 I ain't seen them mover wagons before. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 424/2 As a child, I saw, on this same old trail, an endless stream of ‘mover wagons’, canvas-topped prairie schooners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † movern.² Origin: A borrowing from Welsh. Etymon: Welsh amobr. Etymology: < Welsh amobr amobr n.; the English form apparently shows alteration after move v. Compare earlier amobr n., mobarship at amobreship n. β. forms. Obsolete. rare. Only in office of mover n. an office conferring the right to receive a fee on the marriage of a woman living in the manor of the holder; see amobr n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to receive specific fines > one having office of mover1473 1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 86/1 Th' office of Mover within Dynbiegh Land in Wales. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). movern.³ Brit. /ˈmuːvə/, U.S. /ˈmuvər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: move n., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < move n. + -er suffix¹. Chess. With prefixed numeral: a problem in which the king is to be mated in the specified number of moves. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > problems jeopardyc1369 problem1817 Indian problem1846 mover1868 Indian1878 retractive problem1890 waiting problem1891 retractor1893 help-mate1897 sui1897 miniature1903 waiter1906 grab theme1909 fairy chess1914 King's (or Queen's) Indian1931 1868 Westm. Chess Club Papers 1 47 A two-mover now knocks me down. 1881 Brentano's Chess Monthly June 86 The sacrifice of Queen is very much the same as in the ‘Welcome’ three-mover. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Apr. 3/3 A three-mover by Loyd which we consider a remarkable composition. 1931 B. Harley Mate in Two Moves ii. 20 We now come to the last of the big groups into which the two-mover can be divided. 1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 18/2 Beckerson found other 20-movers that capture all the black pieces, as well as some 20-movers that end in blocked games after some captures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1385n.²1473n.³1868
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