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removal|rɪˈmuːvəl|
Also 6–7 -all, 7 remoou(e)all, -moveall.
[f. remove v. + -al1.]
1. a. The act of taking away entirely.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxv. §19 No redresse can well be hoped for without remouall of that wherein they haue ruined themselues. a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 67 The remooueall of such reasons and doubts. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 505 First of all, the Priests and Nobility, intreat the Removal of this miserable Destruction from their Possessions. 1725N. Robinson Th. Physick 163 It is a most dangerous Disease, and..demands the best Assistance that can be given..for its Removal. 1745Wesley Answ. Ch. 43 You look upon both the Disorders and the Removals of them to be supernatural. 1842J. H. Markland Remarks Eng. Ch. 25 Good taste would suggest the removal of the wainscoting altogether. 1890–1Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 608 Removal of Film.—The gelatine films may be removed from the glass plate [etc.].
b. The act of ‘removing’ a person by murder.
1655Cal. St. Papers, Dom. (1881) 355, I think with you that he [Cromwell] will die a violent death,..for his removal is the only way to settle his Majesty in his 3 Kingdoms. 1897Hearth & Home 14 Jan. 378/1 It is true that isolated ‘removals’ have small apparent effect, but they are invaluable as a demonstration of our power.
2. Dismissal from an office or post; also, transference to another office, etc.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §96 He was advanced to be Keeper of the Great Seal of England..upon the removal of the Bishop of Lincoln. 1661Cowley Cromwell Wks. 1710 II. 641 Without disputing..the Causes, either of the Removal of the one, or the Preferment of the other. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 3 Captain Norris of the Gloucester having obtained Leave to return to England,..occasioned the above Removals. 1800J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 47 When I came into office, it was my determination to make as few removals as possible. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. vi. 667 The appointment and removal of magistrates is left to the Lord Chancellor.
3. a. The act of conveying or shifting to another place; the fact of being so transferred.
a1639Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 117 Not many minutes after the fall of the body, and removall thereof into the first room. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxi. §11 The sitting still even of a paralytic, whilst he prefers it to a removal, is truly voluntary. 1764Burn Poor Laws 108 It hath been generally understood, that removals [of the poor] were first ordained by the 13 & 14 C. 2. 1818Shelley Julian 252 He would not bear Removal, so I fitted up for him Those rooms. 1888F. Hume Mme. Midas i. ii, Slivers had pushed all the..loose papers away, and was writing a letter in the little clearing caused by their removal.
†b. Chess. A move. Obs. rare.
1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 298 Philometer invented the Game of Chesse, which..discover'd to him the duty of a Prince towards his Family and Subjects, by shewing him the removals of the several pieces.
4. The act of changing one's ground, place, or position; esp. change of habitation.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 288 All the judicious Panegyricks in any language extant are not halfe so prolixe. And that well appears in his next removall. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, Such had been the precipitancy of this removal. 1811Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. v. 136 This removal will cause you some additional trouble, my dear Sir William. 1899Green's Encycl. Sc. Law XII. 236 Removal from urban tenements is regulated by custom.
attrib.1881Act 44 & 45 Vict. c. 39 §1 This Act may be cited as the Removal Terms..Act. 1886W. A. Harris Techn. Fire-Insur. Dict., Removal-damage is allowed by Offices in cases where their agents authorise such removal. 1939Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Let. 23 Oct. (1971) 183 The removal man..told me some interesting things about the art of moving and storing furniture. 1962J. G. Bennett Witness xviii. 218 One of the removal men asked him if a sofa was to go ‘up the apples’. 1973Times 28 Dec. 16/1 (Advt.), Assistance with removal expenses if necessary. 1974M. Gilbert Flash Point xiii. 115 They wore corduroy trousers and jackets belted at the waist... They looked like removal men. 1979Homes & Gardens June 77/2 They used his pension to buy an old removal van.
Add:[3.] c. Anglo-Irish. In full, removal of remains. The formal taking of a body to the church for the funeral service. Cf. lift n.2 1 c.
1890Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Nov. 4/2 (heading) The late Lady Rosebery. Removal of the remains to-day. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 544 Private chapel occupies return landing, removal every other quarter day. 1949Irish Times 15 Oct. 12/1 The family..wish to return their sincere thanks to..all who attended removal of remains, Mass and funeral. 1967Irish Press 30 Dec. 2/5 The wife and family..wish to thank most sincerely all those..who sent Mass cards, floral tributes, telegrams, letters of sympathy, attended removal, Requiem Mass and funeral. 1979Southern Star (Eire) 29 Sept. 4/1 His fellow employees as well as members of Kilmac G.A.A. formed guards of honour at the removal and funeral. 1986Evening Press (Eire) 21 May 2/1 Removal to Holy Family Home Chapel at 6 o'clock this (Wednesday) evening. |