† proˈmove, v. Obs.
[ad. L. prōmovēre to move forward, promote: see pro-1 and move v. Cf. OF. por-, promovoir, mod. promouvoir, perh. the immediate source.]
1. trans. = promote v. 1.
| c 1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 34 The sone of Stevyne..the whiche promouyd Theobalde..in-to the Archebisshope of Cawntirbery. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. Pref., Lat euery nobyll Prynce..luf vertew and iustice, heat vyce, punys euyll men, and promowe gud men. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 62 [He] laborit daylie to promove his freindis to honour and dignatie. 1671 J. Brydall Law Eng. Nobility & Gentry (1675) 2 Nobility being then a Quality or Dignity, whereby a Man is..promoved out of, and above the Estate of the vulgar. |
2. = promote v. 2.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 51 Prelats promouing, or secular lordis procuring þat þat clerk lord in þat maner, þei synnun deadly. 1566 Let. Gen. Assembly Ch. Scot. to Eng. Ch. 19 To promove the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. a 1641 Suckling Loving & Beloved Poems (1646) 5 It is impossible, nor can Integrity our ends promove. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 19 Making use of the Christian Religion only as a blind or politic medium to promove their gain. 1702 C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. iv. (1852) 77 The ‘sons of the prophets’, whose establishment ‘in the present truth’, I am..under an obligation to promove. |
3. To move mentally, provoke, instigate, incite.
| c 1477 Caxton Jason 10 To this promouid him enuye and disloyal detraccion. 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. B iij b, A Law ought to draw back men from evill,..it ought also to promove them unto good. |
4. To move outward, remove to another place. rare.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 329 Tha war promouit till ane vther place At will..of the kingis grace. |
5. intr. To move on, advance, make progress.
| 1570 Buchanan Chamæleon Wks. (1892) 43 This monsture promovit to sic maturitie of aige as it could easelie flatter and imitat euery manis countenance. 1627 S. Ward Happiness of Practice 38 We can doe iust nothing, but lye becalmed and vnable to moue or promoue as a Ship on the Sea. 1655 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 77 How few are there who endeavour to promove in their spiritual state. |