▪ I. † aˈmove, v.1 Obs.
Also 4–5 amoeve, 4–6 ameve, 6 amoove.
[a. OFr. amov-er, amouv-oir, accented stem ameuv-:—L. admovē-re to move to, excite to, f. ad to + movē-re to move. App. confounded to some extent with OFr. esmover, mod.Fr. émouvoir:—L. exmovēre.]
1. To set in motion, stir, stir up, excite (any action, a person to action, the heart, the blood, etc.).
| a 1330 Sir Otuel (1836) 33 Suiche tydings thei herden, That á-moeuede al here blod. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxiii. 118 He walde amowe were in Frawns. 1541 Paynell Catiline lii. 75 b, The commons were excedingly amoued agaynst the Senatours. c 1590 Greene Poems 136 At all these cries my heart was sore amoved. |
2. esp. To move the feelings of (a person), to move inwardly, cause emotion to. (Fr. émouvoir.) a. trans. (usu. pass.)
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. i. 6 Sche was a lytel ameued and glowed wiþ cruel eyen. 1494 Fabyan ii. xlviii. 32 When the knowlege of y⊇ deth of Irreglas was brought vnto the kynge, he was therwith greatly amoued. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. iii. 40 How art thou thus agane the fatis amouit? 1596 Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 45 She..him amoves with speaches seeming fit. |
b. refl.
| 1530 Palsgr. 425/2 Kepe your pacyence and amove you not. |
c. intr.
| c 1280 Signs bef. Judg. in E.E.P. (1862) 11 Þer nis no seint in heuen abow..Þat þer of ne sal amoue. c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 442 Whan she had herd al this she noght ameued [v.r. amoued] Neyther in word, in cheer, or countenaunce. |
3. trans. To arouse (from sleep, etc.).
| 1595 Spenser Daphnaida 545, I, stepping to him light, Amooved him out of his stonie swound. |
▪ II. amove, v.2
(əˈmuːv)
[ad. L. āmovē-re to remove, move out of the way; f. ā = ab off + movē-re to move; prob. as a legal term directly f. Fr. amoever, in this sense in Act 9 Hen. VI. (quoted by Godefr.).]
1. To remove (a person or thing) from a position; to dismiss (a person) from an office. (Now only in legal phraseology.)
| 1494 Fabyan vii. 486 The sayde persones were from the kynge amoued. 1524 State Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 110 Amoving and expellyng him from all auctorite. 1642 H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxxvi, Claws, horns, hoofs they use the pinching ill t'amove. 1800 Colquhoun Comm. & Pol. Thames xi. 319 These Harbour-Masters may be suspended or amoved. 1832 J. Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. 1098 An abortive attempt to amove it [an object of theft]. |
† 2. To remove, put away (things immaterial). Obs.
| 1536 Bellendene Cron. Scotl. I. 35 Al hatrent for that time beand amovit. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. iv. x. 13 To amoue the note of ingratitude, and turbulency from them. 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. v. 12 Zeal..in amoving this grand errour out of the Church. |