moventt (movent)

and n. [OF. morant, F. mouvant = Sp. moviente = Pg. It. movente, To suppose a body to be self-existent, or to have the power of Being, is as absurd as to suppose it to be self-movent, or to have the power of motion. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, i. 1. II. n. That which moves anything. But whether the sun or earth be the common movent cannot be determin'd but by a farther appeal. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, ix.