movability (movabiliti)

[Also moveabil ity; ult. E. moble1, mobile, q. v.), movere, move: see move.] I. a. 1. Capable of being moved from place to place; admitting of being lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; hence, as applied to property, personal. To the thridde his goodes meuable . IMG:content-1034.png:[blocks in formation] The lunar month is natural and periodical, by which the moveable festivals of the Christian Church are regulated. Holder. 4t. Fickle; inconstant. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable , that thou canst not know them. Prov. v. 6. Movable bars, the cro -bars of a printers' chase which are detachable. - Movable dam. Same as barrage. Movable do. See do4 and solmization . - Movable feast. See feast1 , 1.- Movable kidney. Same as floating kid ney (which see, under kidney ). - Movable ladder. See ladder.-Movable property, personal property. II. n. 1. Anything that can be moved, or that can readily be moved. The firste moevable of the eighte spere. Chaucer, Astrolabe, i. 17. 2. Specifically (generally in the plural), personal property; any species of property not fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and lands. Movable things are those which could be removed or displaced without affecting their substance, whether the displacement might be effected by their own proper force or by the effect of a force external to them. Goud smit. In Scots law, movables are opposed to heritage; so that every species of property, and every right a person can hold, is by that law either heritable or movable. If you want a greasy paire of silke stockings also, to shew yourselfe in at Court, they are to be had too amongst his moveables . Nash , Four Letters Confuted. Books of travel have familiarized every reader with the custom of burying a dead man's movables with him. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 103. 3. An article of furniture, as a chair, table, or the like, resting on the floor of a room. An ample court, and a palace furnish'd with the most rich and princely moveables . Evelyn , Diary, Oct. 11, 1644. It's much if he looks at me; or if he does, takes no more Notice of me than of any other Moveable in the Room. Steele, Conscious Lovers, iii. 1. Heirship movables. See heirship. IMG:content-1035.png:[blocks in formation] moval (mö'val), n. [ move + -al.] Movement; removal. And it remov'd, whose movall with loud shout Did fill the echoing aire. Were she the prize of bodily force, Himself beyond the rest pushing could move The chair of Idris. Tennyson, Geraint. Tennyson, Becket, Prol. 2. To excite to action; influence; induce; in- cite; arouse; awaken, as the senses or the mental faculties or emotions. But Medea mouet hym a moneth to lenge. Then leuyt thai the lond and no leue toke. The Sowdon anon he ganne his councell to meve Of that mater that towchid hym soo nere. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1760. I moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter. Shak., All's Well, iv. 5. 75. I little thought, good Cousin, that you of all Men would have moved me to a Matter which of all Things in the World I most decline. Baker , Chronicles, p. 225. I told him that my busine was to Cachoa, where I had been once before; that then I went by Water, but now I was moved by my curiosity to travel by Land. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 94. 3. To rouse or excite the feelings of; provoke; stir up: used either absolutely or with a phrase or preposition to indicate the nature of the feel- ings roused: as, he was moved with or to anger or compa ion. Used absolutely: (a) To affect with anger; irritate. Be not mooued in case thy friend tell thee thy faultes full playne: Requyte him not with mallyce great, nor his good will dis- dayne. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 99. Being moved , he strikes whate'er is in his way. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 623. She gan him soft to shrieve, And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose Which of the Nymphes his heart so sore did mieve. Spenser, F. Q., IV. xii. 26. My poor mistre , moved therewithal, Wept bitterly. Shak ., T. G. of V., iv. 4. 175. in the Eternal" is, in a deeply moved way of expre ion, the happine we all feel to spring from conduct. M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, i. (c) To agitate or influence by persuasion or rhetorical art. Seeing their power to move the ma es, the pontiffs accu- mulated privileges upon them. Welsh, Eng. Lit., I. 78. 4. To propose; bring forward; offer formally; submit, as a motion for consideration by a deliberative a embly: now used only in such phrases as to more a resolution, or to move that a proposal be agreed to. I durste meue no mateere to make him to iangle. Piers Plowman (A), ix. 113. I speak this of a conscience, and I mean and move it of a good will to your grace and your realm. Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. I have heard yt when he hath been moved in the bu i- nes he hath put it of from him selfe, and referred it to ye others. John Robinson , quoted in Bradford's Plymouth [Plantation, p. 48. The Florentine will move us For speedy aid. Shak., All's Well, i. 2. 6. After the moneth is were meuyt of the mene true, Then waknet vp were and myche wale sorow! Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8182. 8. To cause to act or operate: as, to move the bowels. =Syn. 2. To influence, actuate, persuade, prompt, incite, induce, incline, instigate. - 3. To stir, agi- The Grecian phalanx, movele as a tow'r, On all sides batter'd, yet resists his pow'r. Pope , Iliad, xv. 144. The moving waters, at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. Al of nougt hast maad to meeue , Bothe heuen & earthe, day & nyzt. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 101. One far-off divine event, Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion. 3. To change one's place or posture consciously, or by direct personal effort: often in a specified direction from or to an indicated place. The Janizary seemed to be much afraid, talked often of the heat of the weather, and would not move until he knew they [the Arabs] were gone, and which way they went. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 132. He generally says his prayers without moving from his shop. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 189. 4. To walk; proceed; march. While still moving in column up the Jacinto road he met a force of the enemy, and had his advance badly beaten and driven back upon the main road. U. S. Grant , Personal Memoirs, I. 412. There was nothing of the superb gait with which a reg i- ment of tall Highlanders moves behind its music, solemn and inevitable, like a natural phenomenon. R. L. Stevens on, Inland Voyage, p. 202. 5. To carry one's self, with reference to de- mean or, port, or gait: as, to move with dignity and grace. He moves a god, resistle in his course, And seems a match for more than mortal force. Pope , Iliad, xii. 557. Katie never ran; she moved To meet me. Tennyson, The Brook. 6. To change residence: as, we move next week. -7. To take action; begin to act; act. As this affair had happened, it might have been of bad consequences to have moved in it at Damascus, so I took no further notice of it. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 127. God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. Cowper , Light Shining out of Darkne . 8. In che , draughts , and some similar games, to change the position of a piece in the course of play: as, whose turn is it to move ? 10. In music , of a voice or voice-part, to pro- gre from one pitch to another; pa from tone to tone. move (möv), n. [ che , draughts , etc.: (a) A change of the position of a piece made in the regular course of play. The signora did not love at all, but she was up to any move on the board. Trollope , Bar chester Towers, xxvii. (b) The right or turn to move a piece: as, it is my move Becket. It is your move. Henry. Well-there. [Moves.] Tennyson, Becket, Prol. 2. A proceeding; a course of action: as, he On the move, moving or migrating, as animals; active or progre ive. To have the move, in draughts , to occupy the situation in which that player is who can first force his adversary to offer a man to be taken. - To know a move or two, or to be up to a move, to be smart or sharp; be acquainted with tricks. [Slang.]=Syn. Movement , etc. See motion . etc. engagement with the next notch in the wheel B. The latter is thus moved once and locked at each turn of the wheel A. If the wheel B has ten notches, it will turn once, and can thus be made to carry or record one for every ten turns of the wheel A , and in this form it is much used in movement This form of the movement is used in watch-work, and is sometimes called stop - wheel. - Grave, muscular, etc., movement. See the adjectives. - Movement of plants, the spontaneous activity of plants, abundantly attested in a great variety of ways, and latterly the subject of an important branch of vegetable physiology. Most unicellular plants (bacteria, etc.) po e proper motions of their own, not distinguishable from those of animals, and the same is true of the spores of algæ and the sperm a to zooids of most cryptogams. For the movements of the more highly organized plants, see circumnutation, geotropism, heliotropism, apogeotropism, apheliotropism, diageotropism, diaheliotro pism, etc.-Oxford Movement, a name sometimes given to a movement in the Church of England toward High church principles, as against a supposed tendency toward liberalism and rationalism: so called from the fact that it originated in the University of Oxford (1833-41). See Tractarian ism, Puseyism. = Syn, Move, etc. See motion.