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moven.

Brit. /muːv/, U.S. /muv/
Forms: late Middle English meeve, 1600s– move; also Scottish 1800s meeve, 1800s– muive, 1800s– muve.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: move v.
Etymology: < move v.
†1. A proposal, a motion. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > matter for discussion
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pointc1300
propositiona1382
conclusion1393
positiona1398
motivec1400
move1439
gainsay1559
moot point1563
argumenta1568
prop1607
contention1635
corollary1636
hypothesis1669
discursivea1676
contestation1880
submission1884
1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 17/2 Ye seide John many tymes hath made diverse meeves and tretice for to have pees with ye seide Phelip.
2.
a. In chess, draughts, and similar board games: the moving or changing of position of a piece in the course of a game; such a move together with the opponent's reply; (a player's) turn to move; (rare) the manner or mode in which a piece is allowed to be moved. Cf. remove n. 4c.With the: the right to make the first move in the game; (also) the superiority of position (at any stage of the game) which depends on having the turn to move at the right moment.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > move
draughtc1369
move1656
movement1734
1656 A. Cowley Destinie in Pindaric Odes ii I saw two Angels play'd the Mate. With Man, alas, no otherwise it proves; An unseen Hand makes all their Moves.
1761 E. Hoyle (title) An Essay towards making the Game of Chess easily learned, by those who know the moves only.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 640/2 When the game is near finished, each party having only three or four pawns,..the kings must endeavour to gain the move.
1800 J. Sturges Draughts 2 The first move of each Game to be taken by both players alternately.
1808 J. H. Sarratt Treat. Game of Chess I. 2 The player who gives odds has always the advantage of the move; except, of course, in those games where the move is also given to the inferior player.
1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 381 (Backgammon) The moves of the men are determined by the throws of the dice.
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle , Draughts 107 White may..capture the whole of the three black men in one move.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 2 Becket. It is your move. Henry. Well—there.
1941 F. Reinfeld Keres' Best Games of Chess 108/1 This masterly Zwischenzug is the finest move in the whole game.
1970 A. Sunnucks Encycl. Chess 309 There is no fixed number of moves which determine whether a game can be classified as a miniature, but the term is generally used to describe a game of under 20 moves.
1991 Chess Post Apr. 23/2 We play chess by sending moves through the post.
b. figurative. to know (also be up to, etc.) a move or two: to be cunning, shrewd, sharp; to have experience of the world. Also to be up to every move on the board and variants. Cf. sense 4. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [phrase]
to know what's whatc1422
to know where to find a person1565
to see the light1812
to be awake to1813
to know a move or two1819
to get on to ——1880
to get the strength of1890
to be (or get) wise to1896
to get the picture1900
the penny dropped1939
to pick up1944
to get the message1959
to take on board1979
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To be flash to every move upon the board, is to have a general knowledge of the world, and all its numerous deceptions.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iii. 75 Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) x. 89 J. B. knows a move or two, Ma'am. Josh has his weather-eye open, Sir!
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 104 A cunning old beggar,..up to every move on the board.
2002 www.geocities.com 8 Aug. (O.E.D. Archive) Soon, the boys, always seeking to learn new styles, discover that their uncle knows a move or two and try to get him to teach them his style.
3. A change of location or state.
a. on (also †upon) the move: in the process of moving from one place or situation to another; always travelling or moving about; (figurative) progressing, esp. after a period of stasis.In quot. 1732 the sense may be more like ‘on the point of moving’ than ‘in the process of moving’; cf. sense 3c.
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society > travel > [phrase]
on (also upon) the road1642
on (also upon) the move1732
for (or on) the (high) jump1859
1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Impertinents i. i. 7 in Sel. Comedies VIII I thank'd him gently, with a Nod, meditating at every turn a handsome Retreat; but he observing me upon the Move, in order to leave him [etc.].
1788 J. Ledyard Let. June in Journey through Russia (1966) 244 I..finish the affair & within the month shall be on the move.
1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 80 She lay forming and rejecting plans till day began to dawn, and she heard the farmer upon the move.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxii. 319 Everybody seemed to be busy, humming, and on the move.
1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. i. 18 It does not follow from such arguments as these that civilization is always on the move, or that its movement is always progress.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xcv. 499 The dresser on duty had to be at hand day and night... You were on the move all the time.
1958 R. K. Narayan Guide ix. 184 On the third day we should be on the move again, and the bustle and activity of travel would shield us from troublesome personal topics.
1995 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 28 July b1/1 Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke steadily promoted his accomplishments in portraying Baltimore as a city on the move.
b. The action or an act of moving, esp. from a stationary position; a change of place or position; a movement.
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the world > movement > [noun]
stirringc888
pacec1300
wawingc1305
bestirring1340
movinga1382
movementa1393
startlinga1398
flittinga1400
motionc1425
shiftingc1440
agitation1573
motiveness1611
go1635
moment1641
remover1653
move1818
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 203 To see how shadows shifted With the slow move of time.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxv. 247 A whole detachment of plates were swept off the board at the very first move.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 76 The great principle in a propellant force is so to arrange it that you do not obtain too great a velocity at the first move of the projectile.
1906 J. London in Woman's Home Compan. Sept. 49/2 Now this week I ain't moved at all. I ain't made one move in hours an' hours. I tell you it was swell, jes' settin' there.
1957 I. Fleming Diamond Smugglers (1960) 153 From that moment Glatt's every move was recorded.
1993 Dog World June 12/1 Skooter..hung over the Kawasaki's bench like a gargoyle following every move of the nozzle.
c. A beginning of movement; a motion to do something, esp. to go or depart (as in rising from one's seat, etc.). Esp. in to make a (also †the) move (now often used in statements announcing a person's intention to depart).
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the world > movement > [noun] > a movement
charec1325
stirring1340
mudge1808
move1827
jee1829
shift1831
the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > make a move
to move (also stir, etc.) a peg?1802
to make a (also the) move1827
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. vi. 126 The Archduke, bowing to his circle, made a move.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. xii. 381 So in due time we parted... Cutler made the first move by ascending the companion-ladder.
1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xx Lady Scapegrace..‘made the move’, at which we all sailed away to tea and coffee in the drawing-room.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native II. iii. iii. 116 The next natural thing was for them to part..and Eustacia made a move of conclusion.
1915 W. Cather Song of Lark vi. vii. 437 ‘Get the cab.’ Still she made no move. She merely turned perfectly blank eyes to Dr. Archie.
1923 W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xiii. 138 He made a move to sit down, and she saw him take one of the straight-backed rush-bottoms.
1966 G. Greene Comedians i. v. 157 He said nothing and made no move towards the door.
1989 Great Outdoors Sept. 22/3 With my glass drained I began to think about making a move.
d. A change of place of residence, business premises, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > change of residence
flittingc1175
removinga1425
remove1555
removal1605
motion1634
flit1835
move1853
shift1871
locomutationa1884
1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. 47 Christianity is just now moving to a larger house, and everybody knows how confusing and laborious a move is.
1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 325 Making no further move that is not a move homeward.
1885 Manch. Examiner 29 June 5/3 The first holiday-seekers are making a move to the seaside.
1957 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 8 264 The papacy in the fourteenth century survived the move to Avignon.
1987 S. M. Shortland Managing Relocation (BNC) 1 New employees will need to start work as soon as the move has taken place.
e. A cultural, political, or social shift or trend; a collective change of state or outlook.
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1861 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury 2 Feb. 1/4 Beware of all these expedients for delay. They are insidious attempts to break the impetus of the move towards a Southern Confederacy.
1863 E. H. Browne in W. Thomson Aids to Faith vii. 340 There was a move towards the confounding of the light of Nature with the light of Revelation.
1919 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 6 115 It may justly claium to be the first history of suffrage in the United States that traces in its broader aspect the development of the move toward universal suffrage.
1967 J. Philip et al. Best of Granta II. 104 Perhaps the most consistent move of the last few years has been that towards wider cultural interest.
1991 Wilson Q. Spring 18/2 Among younger persons, the move away from the traditional viewpoint has been even more pronounced.
f. colloquial (originally U.S.). to get a move on: to hurry up, stir oneself. Formerly also †to get a move on oneself.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry
hiec1250
skelta1400
hasty?a1425
hasten1534
festinate1652
to look sharp1680
to make play1799
hurry-scurry1809
to tumble up1826
crowd1838
rush1859
hurry1871
to get a move on1888
hurry and scurry1889
to buck up1890
to get a hump on1892
to get a wiggle on1896
to shake a leg1904
to smack it about1914
flurry1917
to step on it (her)1923
to make it snappy1926
jildi1930
to get an iggri on1946
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed
rempeOE
fuseOE
rakeOE
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rekec1275
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pellc1300
platc1300
startc1300
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rapc1330
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skip1338
firk1340
chase1377
raikc1390
to hie one's waya1400
catchc1400
start?a1505
spur1513
hasten1534
to make speed1548
post1553
hurry1602
scud1602
curry1608
to put on?1611
properate1623
post-haste1628
whirryc1630
dust1650
kite1854
to get a move on1888
to hump it1888
belt1890
to get (or put) one's skates on1895
hotfoot1896
to rattle one's dags1968
shimmy1969
1888 Troy (Alabama) Enquirer 28 July Get a move on you.
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 7 July Now is the time for the mover of dead animals ‘to get a move on himself’.
1895 Overland Monthly Dec. 652/1 ‘Get a move on there!’ said one of the footmen.
1911 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Days x. 107 Come on! Come on!.. Get a move on! Will you hurry up!
1911 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Days xx. 198 But why in Jericho don't you fellers get a move on you?
1914 W. G. Lawrence Let. 13 Aug. in T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 569 In ten days time we should get a move on, but we won't go far.
1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon vii. 149 I only hope they're getting a move on out there.
1973 ‘D. Mariner’ Beaufort Dossier vii. 138 What about getting a move on, then! Get out on the flaming roof an' grab them!
1992 Lakota Times (Rapid City, South Dakota) 5 Aug. a4/1 We urge all tribes to get a move on getting the return of all artifacts..stored across the nation in non-Indian museums.
4. An action calculated to secure some end or one which initiates or advances a process or plan; a step towards an objective. a (good, bad, wise, etc.) move: a (prudent or imprudent) decision or course of action. to make the first move: to initiate an action, to take the first step (esp. in a difficult situation). N.E.D. (1908) treats this sense, along with sense 2b, as a figurative development of sense 2a. In some of the cases an allusion to board games may be perceived, but in others (esp. more recent quots.) derivation from sense 3 or directly from various senses of move v. is also possible.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
craftOE
custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
contrevurec1330
castc1340
knackc1369
findinga1382
wilea1400
conject14..
skiftc1400
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
policec1450
conjecturea1464
industry1477
invention1516
cunning1526
shift1530
compass1540
chevisance1548
trade1550
tour1558
fashion1562
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expediment1571
trick1573
ingeny1588
machine1595
lock1598
contrival1602
contrivement1611
artifice1620
recipea1643
ingenuity1651
expedient1653
contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
1794 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 117 The move of bepraising a man by enumerating the beauties of his polygraph is at least an original one.
1830 M. W. Shelley Fortunes Perkin Warbeck II. i. 12 Men expected that some other would make the first move, which would put in play the menacing forces mustered on either side.
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. viii. 105 And a-travellin' about, and a-livin' on the best, and sleepin' in the spare bed always, ain't a bad move nother.
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead III. iii. ii. 43 He has sent for his own housekeeper, which is a good move.
1884 Good Words June 400/1 The practical details of prison discipline, and the moves by which its rigours may be softened or evaded by the old birds.
1891 Amer. Cricket Ann. 10 The organisation of the Metropolitan District Cricket League was certainly a move in the right direction.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ i. 15 All that remained was to wait until the business agent made the next move.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xii. 265 ‘Kneel,’ she said. ‘You wont even need to speak to Him yourself. Just kneel. Just make the first move.’
1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 140 The Americans were at any rate half a move ahead of us.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 135 Hating to make the first move, he is delighted when Spud starts talking to her mate, because Spud never normally takes the initiative in that way.
1995 Esquire July 120/1 Earle was sleeping in south Nashville flophouses. Sounds like a bad career move.
5. Glass-making. A measure of productivity for piecework.
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1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 90 The mode of reckoning the piece-work of Glass-makers is peculiar. The ‘move’, as it is technically called, is a nominal period of six hours; and the payment is proportionate to the number of articles supposed, by fair exertion, capable of being made in that time by a set of ordinary workmen.
1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 24 Move, a fixed number of articles to be made for a given rate of pay by a chair.
6.
a. A deliberate movement of (a part of) the body, esp. one which is formalized as an element of a sporting activity, theatrical performance, dance, etc. Usually in plural.
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a1939 Z. N. Hurston in P. Bordelon Go Gator & muddy Water (1999) ii. 154 Some bold person does his or her ‘moves’ (steps), chooses a partner, and retires.
1964 Lacrosse (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 35 First Home should make moves to as far away as Third Home level.
1967 Listener 24 Aug. 240/1 At the first rehearsal..we were blocking out the moves.
1985 Bodypower Oct. 24/2 Normal deadlifts test gripping and in fact all round body power, better than most barbell moves.
1995 Represent Apr. 29/3 Recently overseas I was buggin' on the dance tip and had people proppin' me and one even pickin' up on some of my moves.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). In plural. Skilful or stylish conduct or manner, esp. in social or professional contexts; know-how, expertise, savoir faire; (also) the ability to give the appearance of expertise. Frequently in to have (all) the (right) moves.The development of this from sense 6a is not certain; there may also be some allusion to sense 2 or 4.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > knowledge of how to behave
kitha1375
savoir faire1788
move1966
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [noun]
shrewdnessa1616
common sense1658
savoir vivre1745
savoir faire1788
savoir1823
conventional wisdom1838
sophistication1850
canniness1878
hep1914
hipness1937
move1966
1966 J. R. Hunt Bobby Hull 20 He was only fifteen then but he had the moves and savvy of an eighteen-year-old.
1974 G. V. Higgins Cogan's Trade i. 6 He's a prick but he's got all the moves.
1982 People (Nexis) 10 May 19 Most of it, though, fits the broad parameters of rhythm and blues, for which he's got all the right moves.
1994 N. DeMille Spencerville vi. 43 Cliff thought about..people like Landry in general who seemed to have all the right moves, who went out with the right girls, who made things look easy.
7. colloquial (originally U.S.). An act of flirtation, a sexual advance; esp. in to put a (also the) move(s) on (a person), to make a move (on a person).
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1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) 127 Good Moves, a sexually expert male.]
1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 2 iv. 16 Moves..dating maneuvers.
1982 L. Fleischer Making Love iv. 47 When he finally put the heavy moves on Timmy, the boy sobbed with gladness.
1989 Looks Dec. 29 Follow our guide to sensatorial smackers and make your move under the mistletoe.
1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers iii. 45 If you think my Aunt May would let me use the home she spent forty-seven God-fearing years of monogamy in to make moves, forget it.
1995 P. Redmond Hollyoaks (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 4. 24 I..could just make a move on Natasha... But then what? One or two nights before she realises she is a conquest.
1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate xii. 101 Out in the room a few sports put the moves on her, but..they were all talking at once and getting in each other's way.

Compounds

move-man n. now rare a factory worker who is responsible for moving parts, etc., from one stage of production to another.
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1923 J. M. Scott-Maxwell Costing & Price-fixing 94 Move-men are the men who move the raw material and manufactured parts from the store to the shop, and move all jobs from one machine to another or one department to another.
1955 Amer. Speech 30 226 Move man, the dispatcher in the [aircraft production] shop who moves parts from one operation to the next.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

movev.

Brit. /muːv/, U.S. /muv/
Inflections: Present participle moving; past tense and past participle moved;
Forms:

α. Middle English meef, Middle English meefe, Middle English mef, Middle English mefe, Middle English meffe, Middle English mene (transmission error), Middle English meoue, Middle English meove, Middle English meuve, Middle English meuy, Middle English mew, Middle English mewe, Middle English moevi, Middle English myue (southern), Middle English myve (southern), Middle English–1500s meeue, Middle English–1500s meue, Middle English–1500s moeue, Middle English–1500s moeve, Middle English–1500s (1800s English regional (East Anglian)) meeve, Middle English–1600s (1800s English regional (East Anglian)) meve, 1500s meaue, 1500s mieve; Scottish pre-1700 meue, pre-1700 meve, pre-1700 mew, pre-1700 mewf, 1800s– meeve.

β. Middle English mofe (northern), Middle English moffe (northern), Middle English moned (transmission error, past tense), Middle English more (transmission error), Middle English mou, Middle English moyfe (northern), Middle English mufe (northern), Middle English mwe, Middle English–1600s moove, Middle English–1600s moue, Middle English–1700s moven (past participle, rare), Middle English– move, 1500s–1600s mooue, 1600s moave; Scottish pre-1700 mofe, pre-1700 moff, pre-1700 moife, pre-1700 moiff, pre-1700 moiffe, pre-1700 mooue, pre-1700 moouve, pre-1700 moove, pre-1700 moowe, pre-1700 moue, pre-1700 mouf, pre-1700 moufe, pre-1700 mow, pre-1700 mowe, pre-1700 mowff, pre-1700 mowffe, pre-1700 moyf, pre-1700 moyff, pre-1700 muf, pre-1700 mufe, pre-1700 muff, pre-1700 muif, pre-1700 muife, pre-1700 muiff, pre-1700 muiv, pre-1700 muthe, pre-1700 muue, pre-1700 muwe, pre-1700 mviv, pre-1700 mvue, pre-1700 mvwe, pre-1700 mwf, pre-1700 mwff, pre-1700 mwif, pre-1700 mwiff, pre-1700 mwue, pre-1700 mwve, pre-1700 1700s moif, pre-1700 1700s– move, pre-1700 1700s– muve, 1800s muive, 1800s– muv, 1800s– muvv.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mover, movoir.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mover (for further Anglo-Norman forms see note below) and Old French movoir to enter into motion, to depart, to set in motion (c1100), to excite, stir up (c1150), to proceed, originate from (c1170), to influence, affect (end of the 12th cent.), to utter, propose (13th cent.; Middle French, French mouvoir (mid 15th cent.)) < classical Latin movēre to enter into motion, to proceed, depart, to change the position of, to move (the bowels), to move the limbs in dancing, to excite, stir up, to influence, affect, to propose, to initiate a legal action, to ponder, in post-classical Latin also (of property) to be held in fief, to derive as inheritance (late 11th cent.; from late 12th cent. in British sources); cognate with Sanskrit mīv- to push, move, ancient Greek ἀμεύσασθαι to surpass, Lithuanian maujóti, mauti to pull or strip off, (regional or colloquial) to move, walk fast, circulate. Compare Old Occitan mover (mid 11th cent.), moure (early 12th cent.), Spanish mover (1155), Catalan moure (c1200), Italian †movere, muovere (1219), Portuguese mover (a1284).The intransitive use (developed from the reflexive), almost non-existent in Latin and in modern French, was extensively current in Anglo-Norman and Old French (both intransitive and transitive uses are found already in the Chanson de Roland), and came into English at least as early as the transitive use. The α forms moeve , meove , mēve represent the Old French inflectional forms with root-stress, e.g. 3rd plural present indicative muevent , moevent (French meuvent ). Compare the parallel forms of prove v., and Middle English poeple , people , pēple representing Old French pueple , poeple (French peuple ), people n. For parallel infinitive forms compare Anglo-Norman meover, mever, mewer, alongside moever, moveir, movir, mower, muiver, muver. Forms with -f (in both α and β lists) show the usual devoicing of final -v of French loans in Older Scots and northern Middle English (compare the Scottish variant muthe with -th- for -f-.). The origin of the modern English vowel quality has been variously explained. For a summary and a further explanation see B. Diensberg Anglo-French Loanwords & Middle Eng. Lengthening in Open Syllables in M. Markus Historical Eng. (1988) 146–50.
I. To go from one place, position, state, etc., to another.
* General uses.
1.
a. intransitive. Of a person or thing: to go, advance, proceed, pass from one place to another. Also with adverbs, as about, away, to and fro, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
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i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
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chevec1300
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travelc1300
choosec1320
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wisec1330
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dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
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doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 217 Moveth togidere and bereth [the wine] to Architriclin.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4285 With here menskful meyne, sche meued on gate.
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 Apon the Midsummer Ewin..I muvit furth allane.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 677 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 116 All yus yai mufe to ye meit.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1601 Thurgh myddis þe mekill toune meuyt a water.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 33 Me thought The Wood began to moue . View more context for this quotation
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 194 As if a shining fish were moving to and fro very swiftly in a somewhat troubled water.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 395 To the soft Cyprian shores the Goddess moves.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxi. 146 Not a door opens; not a soul stirs. Hannah, as she moves up and down, is shunn'd as a person infected.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 299 A globe moving through a fluid, such as air, that closes behind the body as it moves.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii. 37/1 The aproned or disaproned Burghers moving in to breakfast.
1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 207 And mark'd thee..Through the long dewy grass move slow away.
1887 A. A. Anderson Twenty-five Years in Waggon I. 273 As night advanced, the different wild animals began to move about.
1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat xiii. 234 Four dark forms who shall be nameless, moved like shadows through the town.
1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xxviii. 282 Deakin saw figures moving like dark flames to encircle him.
b. intransitive. spec. Of a celestial object: to travel in a regular path or orbit, or to appear to do so because of the earth's own motion; to exhibit real or apparent motion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)]
movea1393
falla1398
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 677 (MED) Of Sterres in the firmament..Hou so thei moeve or stonde faste.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 108 We may nouȝt se þe sonne þey he meue.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 120 (MED) And þo ij sterres ne meeven neuere.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe ii. §35 26 The mone moeveth the contrarie from othre planetes as in hir epicicle.
1559 D. Lindsay Dreme in Wks. (1931) I. 19 The sewin planetis..moue, naturallie, Sum swyft, sum slaw, as to thare kynde afferis.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 70 Whether Heav'n move or Earth Imports not, if thou reck'n right. View more context for this quotation
1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth ii. 117 The little Planets about Jupiter move in Orbits truly Circular.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §44. 95 The Planets and Comets move in the Heavens very freely.
1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 26 The two first, because they move within the earth's orbit, are called inferior planets.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Move Eastward 1 Move eastward, happy earth.
1890 C. A. Young Elem. Astron. §24. 16 All the stars appear to move in concentric circles around a point near the Pole-star.
1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) i. 19 Dr Percival Lowell..computed the orbit in which the conjectured new planet, ‘Planet X’, ought to move.
1992 Astronomy June 74 Stars move through shorter arcs near the celestial pole.
c. intransitive. Of an army or body of people (or their leader): to go forward, march, advance. Occasionally: to quit one's position. Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > move or march
move?a1400
marcha1450
remarch1620
countermarch1644
to get over ——1781
yomp1982
tab1985
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 12954 Þei moued fro Langres tille Hoscum with mykille folk.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 2001 (MED) Sir Launcelotte..Sall lenge on his lefte hande wyth legyones ynewe, To meue in þe morne-while ȝif þe myste happynne.
c1475 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Caius) 2245 (MED) Tirry to theim was euere meuyng, And with his swerde gretly harmyng.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 549 Anon they move In perfect Phalanx to the Dorian mood. View more context for this quotation
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France II. liv. 46 Observing that the King had moved at a greater distance than usual from the town.
1822 C. P. Clinch Spy in America's Lost Plays (1941) The Virginian Horse move up tomorrow.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. vi. 254 He again moved in pursuit.
1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) x. 132 Religious processions move through the streets.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 819/2 Major General D. C. Buell in Kentucky..was preparing to move against the Confederate general.
1942 Sunday Express 14 June 1/6 Here they [sc. the German army] are now making a determined bid to move on Acroma.
1983 A. Bullock Ernest Bevin i. 19 The Red Army had been ordered to push as far west as possible..only being narrowly prevented..from moving into Denmark as well.
d. intransitive. To depart, start off. Now colloquial (cf. to get moving at get v. Phrases 3k, to make a move at move n. 3c).Now frequently used in the imperative, often with a suggestion of speed; cf. sense 1e.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1965 (MED) I mot nedes..meue to-morne.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 702 Thai twa dayis our thar lugyng still thai maid. On the thrid nycht thai mowit but mar abaid.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 130 (MED) Than they graunted to the Messagers that thei sholde meve the thirde day.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 116 As I shall lay with a friend two miles off, 'tis high time to be moving.
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xvii. 298 Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley were not detained long at Hartfield. The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move. View more context for this quotation
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. xii. 376 As soon as the ceremony was over, ‘Now,’ sais I, ‘we must be a movin.’
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xiv. 179 ‘Must be moving, Captain Robinson,’ he yelled suddenly into the old man's ear.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 191 Frederick the Great of Prussia's war-cheer, ‘Move, you bastards, do you want to live forever?’
1972 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley To study Long Silence i. 35 Davie put a hand out for his coat. ‘I should move.’
1995 A. Levy Every Light in House Burnin' iii. 60 ‘Move!’ my mum shouted. ‘Don't talk nonsense. Go out and play if you want to. Take no notice of them.’
e. intransitive. colloquial. To go quickly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
scour13..
jace1393
hie1398
spina1400
fleetc1400
glentc1400
stripc1400
suea1450
carryc1450
speed1488
scud1532
streek1598
winga1616
to clip it1616
hackney1617
swifta1618
whirryc1630
dust1673
whew1684
race1702
stroke1735
cut1797
spank1807
skid1815
speela1818
crack1824
skimmer1824
slap1827
clip1832
skeet1838
marvel1841
lick1850
travel1850
rush1852
zip1852
sail1876
rabbit1887
move1906
high-tail1908
to ball the jack1914
buzz1914
shift1922
giddap1938
burn1942
hoosh1943
bomb1966
shred1977
1906 W. Le Queux Count's Chauffeur i, in Cassell's Mag. June 66/2 Let's get across to Winchester as quickly as possible. Just here!—sharp to the right and the first to the left takes us into the Guildford road. Then we can move.
1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement xvi. 164 ‘What price the law's delays.’ ‘They can move when they have to.’
1973 W. McCarthy Detail ii. 77 Immediately the large man..was out of the apartment and through the fire door. It took him little more than two seconds. God, he can move, Ben thought.
1987 Kart & Superkart Oct. 18/2 Kennings was really moving when he made contact with a tyre at the pit hairpin and..flipped over.
†2. transitive (reflexive). = sense 1a. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (reflexive)]
wendeOE
meteOE
drawc1175
flitc1175
do?c1225
kenc1275
teemc1275
movec1300
graitha1325
dightc1330
redec1330
windc1330
yieldc1330
dressa1375
raikc1400
winc1400
pass?a1425
get1492
tirec1540
flitch?1567
frame1576
betake1639
rely1641
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 674 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 238 (MED) Þe fisch bi-gan to meouen him..And swam..In þe se.
c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) 546 (MED) Than moued he hym to Mawltryple.
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 77 (MED) Itt is tyme that we meve vs. Youre men losys grounde.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xx. sig. Kvv That in time of warres, they shulde meue them in bataile againe their enemies, in fourme and maner of daunsinge.
3.
a. intransitive. Of a person, a part of the body, etc.: to change position or posture; to exhibit motion or physical activity. In negative constructions (frequently in imperative): to remain still, not to stir.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)]
quetchc1225
movea1325
the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > move as a living being
stira1000
wawc1275
movea1325
pass1340
the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > move (of part of body)
movea1325
a1325 St. Agnes (Corpus Cambr.) 104 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 22 Ȝoure false godes..nabbeþ poer non Enes to meuy of þe stude namore þanne a ston.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 281 The cocodril is a beste and..oonliche his ouer iowe moeueþ.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 12828 Moue not for ouht þat may betide tille þat I com & I se nede.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 137v (MED) Þe pacient..schal be bounden faste apon a borde þat he maie not meue in no wyse.
1451–1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale 1963 (MED) Hir lippes wer mevande.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. viii. 32 Entellus standis stif and grave of cors, Nocht moiffand fra his first stand in a fors.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. i. 13 Hir lippes onely moued, but hir voyce was not herde.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 15 He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moueth not. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 116 Moue these eyes? View more context for this quotation
1627 P. Forbes Eubulus 152 By it the legge walketh and mooveth.
1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 331 Both Legs and Arms spontaneous move.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 191 The animal..has been cut in every division, yet still it continued to move.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) 130 Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
1898 G. B. Shaw You never can Tell in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant 297 He moves as if to go.
1936 J. C. Powys Maiden Castle iii. 107 His hand was moving now at top speed over the white paper.
1968 N. Mosley Impossible Object 22 When small children cling to you you have to disengage yourself carefully: to move too quickly could be traumatic.
1989 T. Vicary Skyjack! 20 The hijacker..pointed his gun at the passengers. ‘Don't move!’ he shouted.
b. transitive. Of a person or animal: to change the position or posture of (the body or a part of the body). Of a muscle, tendon, etc.: to effect the movement of (a part of the body).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > move (the body or a member) [verb (transitive)]
movea1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxvii. 22 He dispiside thee, he vndermouwede thee..aftir thee the hed he mouede.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 21v Þe vertu þat hatte animalis motiua..meueþ alle þe limes.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlvi. 257 (MED) Myht hadde he neyther to stonden ne go Ne Onnethis Ony membre to Meve.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 13v (MED) The senewe þat comeþ fro þe brayn..& goiþ forþ to meuen þe lymes.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Miiv Quhen men mwuis the mwtht and the lippis and the tunge wtuertlie without ye hart and mind.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 145 But shall we dance, if they desire vs toot? Quee. No, to the death we will not moue a foot. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xi. 7 But against any of the children of Israel, shal not a dog moue his tongue. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiii. 124 And this kind of Publique Ministers resembleth the Nerves, and Tendons that move the severall limbs of a body naturall.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiii. 279 The Body..at length began to discover some Symptoms of Breathing, and a little afterwards to move both its Hands and its Legs. View more context for this quotation
1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) i. xxx. 274 Inability to move or use the limb.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. vii. 61 She moved her lips..but could not speak.
1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo xviii. 201 Had either of us moved hand or foot just then, it would, I am convinced, have at once brought on another and probably a fatal charge.
1987 Grimsby Evening Tel. 8 Dec. 18 Keep your head still while all about you are moving theirs.
†c. transitive (reflexive). To change one's place or posture; to stir. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > move body or members [verb (reflexive)]
stirc888
move?a1425
disturb1831
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. v. 32 Beestis that ne mowen nat moeven hemself her and ther, as oistres and muscles.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 100v (MED) Þe pacient is heuye & maie not meue hym.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 120 (MED) All his membres is bon, & he may not mofe hym.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 8 He lept & mevyd hym as a man wakynge from slep.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 641/1 He is so sycke that he can nat move hime in his bedde.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 226v I madlie mvrne and mviv [v.r. mvuis] me to and fro.
†d. intransitive. To bow in acknowledgement or salutation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > greet > use other specific gestures
move1594
nod1600
bow1651
salaam1698
to rub noses1819
hongi1853
heil1939
namaste1969
wai1972
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 sig. D4 He will neither moue nor speake to vs.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxix. 285 I have the pleasure of being acquainted with Mr. Tulkinghorn—at least we move when we meet one another.
1883 Notes & Queries 6 Oct. 278/2 ‘Did you move to Mrs. Chose?’ ‘No, for she did not move to me.’
e. intransitive. Of a person or animal: to have a specified gait or manner of walking, running, etc.
ΚΠ
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. 58 He moves excentrique, like a wandring star.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 10 She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen!
1816 J. Austen Emma II. viii. 146 Jane Fairfax did look and move superior. View more context for this quotation
1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. ix. 241 Remember the slow way in which Mr. Donne moves when he is going out to canvass.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iii. iii. 241 In that and naked otherwise, she moves with an incomparable liberty and grace and life.
1926 Horse & Hound 26 Moves in excellent style.
1953 H. Wynmalen Dressage xvii. 208 The Passage is a spectacular trot, in slow motion, in which the horse moves with much elevation and with great cadence.
1994 Toronto Star 25 June (Metro ed.) k2/4 Goldberger moves..with a grace and efficiency that betray her earlier life as a dancer.
4.
a. intransitive. Of a thing: to undergo change of position or disposition; to be stirred. Also: to be mobile or capable of removal.In quot. a1325, to vary in date of occurrence; cf. movable feast n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)]
stira1000
icchec1175
wag?c1225
movea1325
routa1325
to-wawea1375
removea1400
sway?a1400
trotc1430
ayrec1440
quinch1511
walk1533
twitch1542
shift1595
jee1727
to get around1849
the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > suppose, surmise [verb (intransitive)]
understandc1000
movea1325
thinka1533
imagine1579
wend1581
s'pose1632
surmise1820
a1325 Lent (Corpus Cambr.) 5 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 128 (MED) Þis beoþ vif festen mouable þat meoueþ eche ȝer.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 117 (MED) It meueþ nouȝt for wyndes, for þe glew wiþstondeþ alwey.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 12 (MED) Men may se þare þe erthe of þe toumbe many a tyme stirre and moue.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 3108 He say Þe clothe þat honged vpone hurre tombe..Meue ofte and store wondere fast.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. x. 4 They hewe downe a tre..: they fasten it with nales and hammers, that it moue not.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. E3 Of a wicked man which hauing beene dead and buried, the next day the earth of the graue beeing seene to moue, was taken vp againe.
1676 J. Beaumont in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 731 The Stones, I have given you an account of, generally move in Vinegar.
1742 J. Willison Balm of Gilead (1800) xii. 136 Not a stone moved, nor a pinning in it moved.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad vii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 178 Then move the trees, the copses nod.
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 214 As the iron moves, when the precious stone..is apposed to it.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 45 He..felt that the revolver on his belt moved freely from his holster.
1993 D. Coyle Hardball i. i. 17 A pitcher's rubber and a home plate cut from thick pine slabs and tamped deep into the earth so that they don't move.
b. intransitive. Of something mechanical: to revolve, to work. Of something on hinges, as a door: to turn. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > operate [verb (intransitive)] > of a piece of mechanism
ganglOE
goc1450
movec1450
run1546
workc1610
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 5292 (MED) Þis selere was be sorsry..Made..to meeue with engine.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. vi. 67 This Instrument contains two Parts..moving one upon the other.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 144 The Door did not move on Hinges, but up and down like a Sash.
1798 J. Baillie Tryal ii. ii, in Series Plays Stronger Passions I. 228 I thought I heard a door move.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iii. 57 The door, which moved with difficulty on its creaking and rusty hinges.
a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) ix. 323 The little, over-driven cogs and wheels of the mind..moved more slowly.
1991 S. Spindler Learn to Live 75 My hand finds the iron handle. It turns with ease and..the ancient iron-bound door moves.
†c. intransitive. to move to mind: to come to mind. Also to move of (also out of) mind: to be forgotten. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > come to mind, occur [verb (intransitive)]
comeeOE
runOE
to come to mindOE
occur?a1500
to move to mind?a1525
to come, fall under, lie in one's cap1546
to take (a person) in the head1565
present1585
overpass1591
to come in upon a person1638
suggest1752
to come up1889
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > escape the memory, be forgotten
slipa1340
to move of (also out of) mind?a1525
evanish1603
sink1603
elapse1762
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 453 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 72 Now, by Machomyth so myghty, þat meuyth in my mode! Thys ys masterly ment.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 30 Þof fele yeres ben faren..And it meuyt out of mynd, myn hit I thinke.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1691 Then meuyt to his mynde..Þat his Cite was sure of hym selfe wroght.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2340 Hit is not meuyt of mynde ne mony day past.
5.
a. transitive. To change the place or position of (a thing; occasionally a person); to cause to change from one place, position, or situation to another; to shift, remove; to dislodge or displace (something fixed). Also with adverbs, as away, along, etc. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]
remuea1325
movea1382
translatea1382
transfer1382
transfigurec1384
removea1387
to turn overa1425
transume1483
to carry about1496
traduce1546
transplant1555
transact1621
transmigrate1635
hand1642
to make over1713
recover1719
to carry over1850
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in different position
changea1375
movea1382
shifta1400
skifta1400
transpose?1518
shiften1544
transplace1621
trans-situate1630
translocate1650
shuffle1694
mudge1823
relocate1829
translaya1861
to change around1871
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xv. 27 Þei meuyden here tentis [a1425 L.V. settiden tentis; L. castrametati sunt] besydis þe waters.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds v. 6 Ȝonge men rysinge mouedyn hym awey.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. vi. 57 Perturbaciouns..mai moeve a man from his place (that is to seyn, fro the stabelnesse and perfeccion of his knowynge).
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 2497 (MED) Þe vrthe þat my body lyȝt on is mevyd also, Y-mevyd alle from þe grounde an hyȝe.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. iii–v. sig. aiijv None myght stere the swerd nor meue hit.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxvii. 1 At this my hert is astonnied, and moued out of his place.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 30 Neither did it moue my affection from him.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 415 When she saw her Reasons idly spent, And cou'd not move him from his fix'd Intent; She flew to rage.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 107 He moves his Camp, to meet his careless Foe. View more context for this quotation
1791 M. Cutler Let. 21 Apr. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 466 My barn was moved from the Hubbard house round the north end of the Meeting House to my other barn.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter xvi, in Poems (new ed.) 41 At last you rose, and moved the light.
1897 ‘S. Grand’ Beth Bk. xx. 208 She..moved the tray, and put the table back in its place.
1957 I. Murdoch Sandcastle vii. 105 This rug..she had persuaded Demoyte to move, exchanging its position with another one.
1987 E. Rhode Birth & Madness vii. 205 The removal men complained about having to move the piano. It was too heavy.
†b. transitive. To apply or administer (to). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [verb (transitive)] > apply or bring to bear
apply1395
move?a1425
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. iii. 25 I shal moeve [L. admouebo] and ajuste swiche thynges that percen hemselve depe.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Admoueo, to moue to, or put to.
1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxiii. 25 But thou shalt not mooue a sickle vnto thy neighbours standing corne. View more context for this quotation
†c. transitive. figurative. To promote or advance (a person) to an office. Cf. motion n. 6c. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [verb (transitive)] > raise in prosperity, power, or rank > advance or promote (a person) > to some status
prefera1393
promote1402
promovec1425
represent1435
move1556
1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. B4 And geue thay haue, the floke abusit Ȝe Kyngs sall be, for that accusit..Because, ȝe mouit thame to sic curis Quhilk nother techis, ryche nor puris.
†d. transitive. [Compare Middle French mouvoir son chapeau (15th cent.).] To take off or lift (a hat or cap), as a gesture of polite acknowledgement. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bare head
to take off one's hat1571
move1573
unhat1611
bonneta1616
off-capa1616
uncover1627
doff1674
to touch one's hat1738
unbonnet1821
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 5 I passing bi him, and mouing mi cap.
1614 J. Cooke Greene's Tu Quoque in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) VII. 95 This I must caution you of, in your affront or salute, never to move your hat.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 276 That every Member might, as a testimony of his particular acknowledgment, stir or move his hat towards him; the which..when very many did, the Lord Falkland,..instead of moving his hat,..held it close down to his head.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvi. 286 He seldom speaks to any unless some few of the richest of us; nay indeed, he will not move his Hat to the others. View more context for this quotation
1825 T. Cosnett Footman's Direct. 175 Always show your respect to the family by moving your hat when you meet any of them.
6.
a. transitive. To put in motion; to disturb or cause to stir.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > cause to move [verb (transitive)]
stira1023
icchec1175
wawc1290
movea1382
remble1579
rouse1582
agitate1592
act1597
to put in (also into, to) motion1597
activate1624
actuate1641
animate1646
ferment1667
to feague away1671
to carry about1680
excite1694
jee1722
bestir1813
emotion1831
to set on1855
send1864
motion1929
a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vii. 94 I schall meue to gyþer [L. commovebo] heuen & erþ, þe see & þe drye.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 77 And þanne comsed it to crye, And wagged wydwehode and it wepte after. And whan it meued Matrimoigne it made a foule noyse.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 811 Every word..Moveth first an ayr about; And of thys movynge..Another ayr anoon ys meved.
1539 Bible (Great) Psalms lxviii. 8 Euen as Sinai also was moued at ye presence of God.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xv. 50 The chanell..was so moued that by great surges, it cast the water ouer the walles.
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 167 Let us wait reverently, and intentively upon this Bethesda of God, that when the Angell shall descend and move the Water, our Soules may be cured.
1652 Ripley's Compend of Alchemy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 138 Beware thy Glasse thou never opyn ne meve.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 478 As when the Winds, ascending by degrees, First move the whitening Surface of the Seas.
1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 63 The shadows..are unsteady, in consequence of the western breezes moving the trees.
1919 F. B. Young in Poems 1916–18 34 Scarce a ripple moves the upland grain.
b. transitive. To keep in continuous or regular motion; to drive or actuate (an implement, machine, etc.). Also with adverbs, as to and fro, up and down, etc.In early use frequently in relation to God as the motive force of the universe. Cf. sense 8.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > cause to move [verb (transitive)] > put in continuous or effective motion
stirc897
workOE
move?a1425
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. xii. 219 Thilke devyne substaunce tornith the world..it ne moeveth..and yet it moeveth alle othere thinges.
c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 475 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 455 Ȝe suld kene þat bot a god suld be, þat mad & mowis alkine thing.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 3 (MED) He by His perdurable eternite movith the thinges which renneth their course vndir the tyme.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiii. f. 193 The courteous Gods that giues me life, nowe moues the Planets all.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan Introd. 1 Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheeles as doth a watch).
1709 Tatler No. 100. ⁋1 As she moved it [sc. a mirror] in her Hand, it brightened the Heavens, the Air, or the Earth.
1797 G. Jee in Trans. Soc. Arts (1798) 16 303 The handle is required to be turned one way only, which moves the machine more steadily.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 193 If a glass rod be..moved quickly through the air.
1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 635/1 Dynamo-electric machines, moved by a battery, are found to be the best motors.
1932 W. P. Turner Machine Tool Work xiii. 290 The clamping lever..is pushed back, which moves the hollow push sleeve..against the end of the spring collet.
1992 Sci. Amer. May 56/1 The reciprocating rod moves a piston that powers the bellows for a furnace.
7.
a. intransitive. Originally: to exist, live, have being, in a particular environment or manner (now rare). Later also: to circulate, socialize, involve oneself in, with, etc., a particular sphere, class, coterie, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be or remain in specific state or condition [verb (intransitive)] > be habitually in a state or condition
goOE
walkc1250
movea1382
wade1576
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xx. 25 In beest & in briddys & in al þat mouyn in erþe.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 303 Alle-kynez flesch þat on urthe mevez.
c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) 561 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 226 Weel worþi am y to be schent, How maist þou, lord, suffre me to meeue?
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 82 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 60 Be [read he] maynteyn vs with myrth þat meve vpon þe mold.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. ii. 34 Shall I tell you whom I loue? Hearken then a while to me; And if such a woman moue As I now shall versifie Be assur'd, 'tis she, or none That I loue, and loue alone.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 1 My Station not being so eminent..as others who have moved in higher Orbs.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 234 With no aspirations beyond the little world in which she moved.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 16 I have a sister at the foreign court, Who moves about the Princess.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 170 A man of great power..moving in the first circles of Edinburgh.
1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iv. 93 They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild.
1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head ii. 20 She moved in a fashionable society, more fashionable than that which I frequented.
1982 Face May 57/3 In the mid-Seventies he used to move on the reggae sound system scene.
b. intransitive. In extended use.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 64 My goste is gon In auenture þer meruaylez meuen.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 893 (MED) In all maters that may moue, ouer all my howsha[l]d hed is he.
1784 E. Allen Reason ii. §7. 76 It is altogether reasonable to conclude, that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move..within the circle of our knowledge, are each and every one of them..inhabited by some intelligent agents or other.
1865 W. E. Gladstone Let. 21 July in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) II. v. ix. 148 In a cold and lukewarm period, and such is this in public affairs, everything which moves and lives is called extreme.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist i. §3. 20 If the narrative..moved completely in the region of the natural.
†8. transitive and (in first quot.) intransitive with of. To control, govern. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1273 (MED) The will which of my bodi moeveth..I have restreigned everemore.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. 6 160 Thilke ordenaunce moveth [L. mouet] the hevene and the sterres, and atemprith the elementz.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3323 (MED) This mayden so mylde [sc. Fortune] þat mofes vs all.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 174 Grece, Galys, and to þe Gryckysch See, I meue also Masadoyne in my mykyl mayne.
†9. intransitive. To incline, tend (to something, or to do something); to be favourable (toward a proposal). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (intransitive)]
wryc888
driveOE
drawc1175
rine?c1225
soundc1374
tendc1374
lean1398
clinea1400
movec1450
turnc1450
recline?a1475
covet1520
intend?1521
extenda1533
decline?1541
bow1562
bend1567
follow1572
inflecta1575
incline1584
warpa1592
to draw near1597
squint1599
nod1600
propend1605
looka1616
verge1664
gravitate1673
set1778
slant1850
trend1863
tilt1967
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 735 Unto which place every thyng, Thorgh his kyndely enclynyng, Moveth for to come to, Whan that hyt is awey therfro.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 396 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 Ffurth on my mater to muse I mufe as I may.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 39 Ill huswifery moueth with gosseps to spend.
1677 A. Marvell Let. 22 May in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 201 Some of the House seemed to move toward the 600000li.
†10. intransitive. To proceed, emanate, or originate from. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)]
arisec950
syeOE
comeOE
riselOE
springc1175
buildc1340
derivec1386
sourdc1386
proceedc1390
becomea1400
to be descended (from, of)1399
bursta1400
to take roota1400
resolve?c1400
sourdre14..
springc1405
descenda1413
sprayc1425
well?a1475
depart1477
issue1481
provene1505
surmount1522
sprout1567
accrue?1576
source1599
dimane1610
move1615
drill1638
emane1656
emanate1756
originate1758
to hail from1841
deduce1866
inherita1890
stem1932
1615 Sir R. Cotton in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 163 The King..could not with his greatness answer the proposition, moving only but from Count de Somerset and Cavillero Cotton.
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iv. i. 27 Smiles, not allow'd to Beasts, from reason move.
** Specific uses.
11. intransitive. [Compare Middle French mouvoir contre (1300–1450; early 13th cent. in Old French in form movoir contre to go to war (with someone)).] To take action; to proceed against a person or thing. Also transitive with adverbial noun phrase, in to move a step.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)]
workeOE
doOE
proceedc1390
movec1400
precedec1425
deal1470
plough furrow1597
walka1653
process1835
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)]
withgo743
to go again ——OE
withsayc1175
again-goc1275
withsitc1300
thwarta1325
to go against ——a1382
counter1382
repugnc1384
adversea1393
craba1400
gainsaya1400
movec1400
overthwart?a1425
to put (also set) one's face againsta1425
traversea1425
contrairc1425
to take again ——c1425
contraryc1430
to take against ——a1450
opposec1485
again-seta1500
gain?a1500
oppone1500
transverse1532
to come up against1535
heave at1546
to be against1549
encounter1549
to set shoulder against1551
to fly in the face of1553
crossc1555
to cross with1590
countermand1592
forstand1599
opposit1600
thorter1608
obviate1609
disputea1616
obstrigillate1623
contradict1632
avert1635
to set one's hand against1635
top1641
militate1642
to come across ——1653
contrariate1656
to cross upon (or on)1661
shock1667
clash1685
rencounter1689
obtend1697
counteract1708
oppugnate1749
retroact?1761
controvert1782
react1795
to set against ——1859
appose-
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 407 Bot ȝitte ageyns þis sentence meefes Anticrist.
c1400 ( Canticum Creatione l. 226 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 127 A, deuel, wo þe be! What eyleþ þe so agayn vs meue, And hast so twyes deseyued Eue.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2382 And for Strasagirs þe strang he of his strenth priued, Ȝe meue al þus malicoly his maieste a-gayne.
?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall Originals & Analogues Canterbury Tales (1876) 240 (MED) He began to knowlache un to her hys grete erroure..meuyng under nethe full falsely.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 426 There was nat one that wolde meve for his wordys.
1647 J. Ahier tr. P. du Moulin Elem. Logick i. viii. 19 To doe is to move against the patient or sufferer, and make him receive some power or vertue.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 67. ⁋5 Sacred Persons move upon greater Motives than that of Fame.
1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. v. 300 Valerius and Horatius, declared they wou'd not move a Step, so long as [etc.]
1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 114 That all around, in all that's done, Must move and act for him alone.
1852 Amer. Whig Rev. 15 265/2 The Southern free trade party will not move against England.
1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. iii. 69 I would urge parents to move in the matter.
1974 ‘D. Craig’ Dead Liberty xxi. 125 The hotel would..regard long disappearances by Boxanford as normal, just as the paper did. So, nobody would move.
2000 High Country News 9 Oct. 12/3 Nobody wants to move against the Barnetts unless the case is bulletproof.
12. transitive. Hunting. [Compare Anglo-Norman mover and Old French, Middle French movoir (second half of the 12th cent. in this sense).] To force (an animal) to leave its lair; to start. Formerly also with †to.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1157 (MED) In fermysoun..schulde no man meue to þe male dere.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 18 (MED) To se if þe deere þat is harboured wold..stele away or þe lymer meued hym.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 7 (MED) Lo, here a gret hert..go we mewe hym [Fr. alons le laissier courre].
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 133/2 Moving snipe on a calm day..is not work for an impatient man.
13.
†a. transitive. To induce or promote (an excretion or secretion); to promote the development or growth of (a disease, tumour, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)] > provoke excretion
move?a1425
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 148v (MED) Þinges beyng myȝty to moue vrinacioun.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 509 (MED) If it be laide to vnwisely, it moveþ feueres and euel accidentes.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 115 (MED) Þe cause..þat meueþ a cankre to wexe þus in a wommans brest.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 40 Camels haie..mooueth the tearmes.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vii. 31 Salt..hath vertue..to move sweates.
b. transitive. To stimulate (bowel activity), to cause (the bowels) to be evacuated. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (transitive)]
shita1382
to defy out1382
deliver?a1425
cack1485
evacuate1542
scour1577
shoot1594
foil1599
exstercorate1609
to dung outa1642
move1645
cast1704
to do one's doings1957
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 270 He was bowelled in heart, his bowels were moved with compassion.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 14 May 214/2 'Twould have moved a Christian's bowels To hear the doubts he stated.
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 308 The very large doses of medicine that were necessary to move her bowels.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 414 The bowels being moved immediately after each meal.
1987 A. Eyton Compl. F-plan Diet (BNC) 78 Some people will move their bowels every day, others only once a week.
1993 D. Robinson Good Clean Fight (BNC) 396 If you haven't moved your bowels today you'd better do it now.
c. intransitive. Of the bowels: to evacuate faeces.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Pass Do the Waters Pass well? much in use at the Wells, do they Move as they ought?
1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xi. 96 Even when the bowels were truly described as moving regularly.
1940 N. J. Eastman Expectant Motherhood vii. 116 No attempt should be made to ‘bear down’..in an expulsive effort such as is employed when the bowels move.
1991 Independent 28 Nov. 15/2 The bowels moved as well, prematurely ejecting the post-surgical pack scheduled to come out in next morning's bath.
†14. intransitive. Law. Of property: to derive as inheritance (by, of a person); to devolve (from one person to another). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > own [verb (transitive)] > belong to
pendc1330
toucha1375
move1438
1438 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 111 (MED) That the saide Iohn Russell haue & reioyce for euer more all the lyuelode that meueth of his moder after her deces.
1491 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 327 Be the reson of heritage pertening and mowyn to hyme be his vife.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. ix. 180/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The husband that marieth an heire to haue such lands as moue by hir during his naturall life.
15. Chess, Draughts, etc.
a. intransitive and †transitive (reflexive). Of a piece: to pass from one position to another in the course of the game.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > take part in a board game [verb (intransitive)] > move (of piece)
move1474
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > take part in a board game [verb (reflexive)] > be moved (of piece)
move1474
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. ii. 163 We ought to knowe..how the kynge meueth hym and yssueth oute of his place.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. ii. 165 Therfore may the kynge meue on the lifte side of his propre poynt.
a1525 Bk. Chess l. 2049 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 146 A king..movis our all quhar.
1735 J. Bertin Noble Game of Chess p. v The king's pawn, the bishop's pawn, and the queen's pawn, must move before the knights.
1876 W. N. Potter in Encycl. Brit. V. 593/1 They [sc. knights] move from one corner of any rectangle of three squares by two to the opposite corner.
1926 G. Hume & A. C. White Weenink's Chess Probl. 71 Two Black pieces stand in line in such a way that if either one moves the other becomes pinned by a White piece.
1955 F. Reinfeld 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate v. 146 When White plays 1 N-R6 dbl ch, his Knight moves to ‘discover’ a check by the White Queen.
1996 Times 13 Nov. 44/3 You cannot castle..if the rook you wish to castle with or your king have already moved.
b. intransitive. Of a player: to make a move.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > take part in a board game [verb (intransitive)] > make move
move1597
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 201 For vnder cuire I got sik check, That I micht neither muife nor neck.
1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) I. 128 The Gamesters must move by Turns, as they do at Draughts.
1800 J. Sturges Draughts 2 You are allowed five minutes more to move, and in default of moving in that time you lose the Game.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 3 Check—you move so wildly.
1935 T. G. Smith & G. E. Bone tr. S. Tarrasch Game of Chess i. 5 White has constrained his opponent to move.
1992 A. Taylor Guinness Bk. Trad. Pub Games 165/2 The other player must continue to move in the approved fashion.
c. transitive. Of a player: to change the position of (a piece) in the course of play; to transfer from one position to another.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > play (a board game) [verb (transitive)] > move piece
move1761
1761 E. Hoyle Ess. Game of Chess Pref. When you castle your King, do not move the Pawns before him till forced to it.
1800 J. Sturges Draughts 2 If..you move your Man..over the Angle which divides the Squares..you must finish your move so begun.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 2 My liege, I move my bishop.
1960 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games iii. 98 Five Field Kono... The object of the game is to move the pieces across to the other side of the board.
1992 Chess Monthly Sept. 28/3 If he moves his bishop he loses a pawn.
16.
a. intransitive. Of time, a narrative, a piece of work, etc.: to progress, develop, unfold.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation)
fremec1000
furtherc1200
profit1340
to go onc1449
grow1487
to commence to, intoa1500
framea1529
to get ground?1529
movec1540
work1566
promove1570
advance1577
devolve1579
to come on1584
progress1612
to gain ground1625
germinate1640
proceed1670
to gather ground1697
march1702
to make its way1711
to come forward1722
develop1744
to turn a wheel1864
shape1865
come1899
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7167 By two monethes were myldly mouit to end.
1694 M. Prior For New Year: To Sun ii From the Blessings They bestow, Our Times are dated, and our Æra's move.
1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 426 The 9th Vol. (which will be the last) moves apace.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 105 Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point.
1890 Spectator 31 May 765 The story moves far too slowly, and the long conversations..are tiresome.
1902 T. M. Lindsay Church & Ministry in Early Centuries iv. 149 Things move fast in young communities organising themselves for the first time.
1954 G. Vidal Messiah ix. ii. 227 Events moved rapidly.
1992 Economist 11 July 34/3 Overlapping meetings, meant to move from procedural matters to constitutional arrangements.
b. intransitive. Music. Of a voice or part: to proceed from note to note.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > harmonize [verb (intransitive)] > movement of parts
move1771
progress1882
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 333/2 The part for the organ should move in long notes, and by the least intervals.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 451 Figurative Harmony, consisting of three or four different melodies moving together in consonance.
1877 J. Stainer Harmony vi. §73 Oblique [motion is] when one part is stationary and another moves.
1942 E. Blom Mus. in Eng. v. 81 The choruses that often move impressively in solid block harmony.
1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. 21/6 A kind of harmonised change-ringing where the voices move against each other in contrary motion but rhythmic unison.
17.
†a. transitive. To perform the steps of (a dance). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > [verb (transitive)]
leadOE
dancec1300
foota1500
move1568
trip1627
morris1844
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 385 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 293 All thair dansis and play thay movit in thair mad muting.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 579 As they move Thir S[t]arry dance in numbers that compute Days, months, and years. View more context for this quotation
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life VI. 23 I beheld a lady moving a minuet with infinite grace.
b. intransitive. To dance.
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society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)]
frikec1000
sail1297
dancec1300
sault1377
tripc1386
balea1400
hopc1405
foota1425
tracec1425
sallyc1440
to dance a fita1500
fling1528
to tread a measure, a dance1577
trip1578
traverse1584
move1594
to shake heels1595
to shake it1595
firk1596
tripudiate1623
pettitoe1651
step1698
jink1718
to stand up1753
bejig1821
to toe and heel (it)1828
morris1861
hoof1925
terp1945
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. sig. D4v What more then delian musicke doe I heare, That calles my soule..To moue vnto the measures of delight.
1772 W. Jones Poems 129 A tune so various and uncouth he made, That not a dancer could in cadence move.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 28 And the dancers move On the departed snowbushed green.
1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 84 Go to a club one week, go back the next and everyone is moving differently.
1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes 24 Mucho Muchacho moved to his own music, and..danced his chingada stompada.
18.
a. intransitive. To change one's place of residence or work. Frequently with from, into, out of, to, †towards, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > change residence
remove1388
flit1504
shift1530
to pull up stakes1703
movea1707
emigrate1841
uproota1961
to pick up stakes1974
a1707 S. Patrick Auto-biogr. (1839) 244 He was afterwards the occasion of his leaving the College, and moving towards London.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 170 With this Certificate they remov'd..; and John inclining not to go far from Home, they mov'd towards the Marshes on the side of Waltham.
1796 C. Lamb Let. 1 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 67 Write me when you move, lest I direct wrong.
1860 G. H. Lewes Jrnl. 26 Sept. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 349 On Monday we moved out of Holly Lodge, sending..our chattels to the Pantechnicon.
1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 63 In 1715 Pope moved with his parents to Chiswick.
1891 N. Gould Double Event 18 You shall have the place Thurton had..and you can move into his cottage as soon as you please.
1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door iv. 91 Later I moved to pleasant chambers in Temple Gardens.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day iii. 46 After my mother's death we had moved from Ealing to Notting Hill.
1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost i. xii. 101 The Bronx became untenable for me—I had to move.
b. transitive. To exchange (one's place of residence or work) for another; chiefly in to move house. In extended use in quots. 1888 and 1897.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house > move house
to move house1888
1888 T. Hardy Waiting Supper in Murray's Mag. Feb. 204 Side by side as they had lived in his day here were they now. They had moved house in mass.
1895 T. Hardy Jude i. i. 3 The purchased article [sc. a piano] had been a perpetual trouble to him ever since in moving house.
1897 T. Hardy Well-beloved i. v. 42 The Well-Beloved was moving house—had gone over to the wearer of this attire.
1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island ii. 22 Your aunt and Martha and myself have recently moved house.
1974 R. Rendell Face of Trespass 10 If you ever feel like moving house to live among your constituents I'll be happy to oblige.
1991 Which? Aug. 463/3 Personal pension plans may be preferable if you're going to move jobs frequently or take a career break.
1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. i. 20/3 The old, industrial jobs disappeared, which caused many people to change work or retire or move cities.
19.
a. intransitive. Of merchandise: to find a buyer, be sold. Of a stock of goods, esp. copies of a book: to be in the process of being bought up (more or less rapidly). Also (now rare) with off.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > [verb (intransitive)] > be traded
move1759
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be sold or find buyers
sell1609
utter1611
vend1622
vent1622
to go off1625
move1759
sale1809
to sell (also go, go off) like hot cakes1839
1759 O. Goldsmith Pres. State Polite Learning vi, in Misc. Wks. (1895) 432/2 To borrow a bookseller's phrase, the whole impression moves off.
1859 J. Blackwood Let. 7 Mar. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 29 Adam Bede is moving rapidly. More than 100 a few days ago and another 100 yesterday.
1876 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) ii. 50 A second or third edition moves off languidly enough.
1888 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 24 52 The new crop does not begin to move to any considerable extent before the middle of that month.
1893 E. Gosse Questions at Issue 60 Both of them achieved fame..long before their books began to ‘move’, as publishers call it.
1936 J. M. Cain Double Indemnity in Liberty 15 Feb. 8 Accident insurance is sold, not bought... That stuff moves when agents move it.
1971 Scholarly Publishing 2 127 The press has some 17,000 titles in print, some of them obviously moving rather slowly.
1990 Gramophone Feb. 1549/2 Only three kinds of item are moving in quantity.
b. transitive. To find a buyer for (merchandise); to sell a stock of; to cause to be sold.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)]
to sell awayc1230
to set to (for, on) sale, a-salec1275
sella1330
to make sale (of)c1430
market1455
to make penny of1464
vent1478
to put away1574
dispatch1592
money1598
vent1602
to put off1631
vend1651
hawk1713
realize1720
mackle1724
neat1747
to sell over1837
unload1884
flog1919
move1938
shift1976
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > with a movement
writhe1859
move1938
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a movement
writhe1859
squirm1889
move1938
1900 Daily News 20 June 9/1 There has been a rather better demand for leather during the week, and some fair parcels have been moved.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Sept. 10/1 A drastic tax on chain stores has been defeated in a referendum in California, where the function of the chains in ‘moving’ citrus-fruit surpluses is now more fully appreciated.
1962 Guardian 5 Nov. 3/6 Our displays are moving about 25,000 cans a week.
1975 Publishers Weekly 6 Jan. 54/1 Booksellers should easily be able to move this slender ‘autobiography’ of Lincoln.
1993 Observer 11 Apr. 27/1 A mutual acquaintance..was a key link in the network attempting to move the stolen bonds.
20.
a. intransitive. Of a group of people, a culture, organization, etc.: to change state, condition, or opinion. With towards or away from.
ΚΠ
1874 A. Trollope in Fortnightly Rev. Apr. 549 The energetic, the talented, the honest, and the unselfish will always be moving towards an aristocratic side of society.
1928 T. S. Eliot Dialogue on Poetic Drama p. xxii The age of Shakespeare moved in a steady current..towards anarchy and chaos.
1962 Rep. Comm. Broadcasting 1960 82 in Parl. Papers 1961–2 (Cmnd. 1753) The [Independent Television] Authority told us that they were moving towards a reform of advertising magazines.
1998 Educ. Rev. 12 ii. 15/1 The appraisal interview would move away from mutual trust and respect developed in the existing scheme.
b. intransitive. to move with the times: to be up to date in one's thinking or attitudes; to keep abreast of current developments.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > present time [verb (intransitive)] > be or become up-to-date
modernize1753
to move with the times1875
1875 ‘V. Fane’ Denzil Place 9 Tho' this meddling man had also said The fever had not been if good Sir John Had mov'd more with the times.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 5/1 The Bank of England..in its desire to move with the times..has been undertaking the inscription of a number of colonial loans.
1936 W. H. Robinson & K. R. G. Browne How to live in Flat 90 We have no hesitation in offering the following hints to those who—wishing to move with the times..—desire to construct a service-flat for their own use.
1973 Times 28 Nov. 22/6 If you change anything, you are accused of eroding history. If you change nothing, you are accused of failing to move with the times.
1998 S. Faulks Charlotte Gray iii. v. 311 The public baths had been installed eight years earlier by a socialist mayor anxious that Lavaurette should move with the times.
c. intransitive. to move into (also out of): to become involved in (or cease to be involved in) a particular business, activity, area of investment, etc.
ΚΠ
1940 Economist 21 Sept. 363/1 There is a steady tendency for labour to move out of primary production into secondary production (manufacture) and from secondary to tertiary production (all forms of services).
1977 Listener 17 Mar. 351/3 In the next decade, as the rich seams of double glazing, wall coating and so on get worked out, it is likely that the cowboys will move into quite new areas.
1989 Marketing 9 Mar. 25/2 We now hear that Rover is going to move out of the mass market and pursue a niche strategy.
1993 Independent on Sunday 29 Aug. (Review Suppl.) 10/1 She started with the [British Broadcasting] Corporation as a secretary in 1963, moving into radio studio management.
21. intransitive. Of a stock, share or commodity: to increase or decrease in value. Also used of a company or market whose shares are increasing or decreasing in value, or of a stock market as a whole.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > state of market or prices > fall or rise (of prices)
to look downwards1796
to look downward1801
to look down1808
rally1826
sag1870
give way1883
slump1888
firm1896
move1904
spurt1931
perform1933
dip1956
to pull back1966
to go in the tank1974
1904 Daily Chron. 2 Dec. 1/7 Kaffirs weakened, but Jungles moved upward.
1964 Financial Times 10 Feb. 9/1 A fair business was done in temporary funds in the Local Authorities loans market last week. Rates tended to move erratically at the short end.
1985 Times 3 May 23/7 Carpets International..continued to move ahead.
1992 World Monitor June 24/1 Stock markets do not move in straight lines.
22. Cricket.
a. transitive. To cause (the ball) to swing in the air, or deviate off the pitch on delivery.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > bowl in specific manner
twist1816
overthrow1833
to bowl over the wicket1851
overpitch1851
bump1869
york1882
to break a ball1884
flog1884
to bowl round (or formerly outside) the wicket1887
turn1898
flick1902
curl1904
spin1904
volley1909
flight1912
to give (a ball) air1920
tweak1935
move1938
overspin1940
swing1948
bounce1960
cut1960
seam1963
dolly1985
1938 H. S. Altham & E. W. Swanton Hist. Cricket (ed. 2) xxviii. 367 Amar Singh made the ball move late in the air and like lightning from the pitch.
1956 N. Cardus Close of Play 37 We are supposed to be enlightened by news that Lindwall is ‘moving’ the ball.
1962 Times 24 May 4/2 Platt, however, kept plugging away around the good length mark, moving the ball a little either way and generally looking a thoroughly useful practitioner.
1984 Guardian 5 Jan. 19/1 He had the capacity to move the ball either way in the air.
b. intransitive. Of the ball: to swing in the air or off the pitch.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball
to make haste?a1475
twist?1801
cut1816
shoot1816
curl1833
hang1838
work1838
break1847
spin1851
turn1851
bump1856
bite1867
pop1871
swerve1894
to kick up1895
nip1899
swing1900
google1907
move1938
seam1960
to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961
1938 H. S. Altham & E. W. Swanton Hist. Cricket (ed. 2) xxx. 416 Stephenson..is a ‘cutter’, using the seam to make the ball move either way off the ground as well as in the air.
1950 F. N. S. Creek Teach Yourself Cricket vi. 122 Swing bowlers, even with a new ball, have been hard put to it to make the ball move an inch out of the straight.
1991 G. Cotter Eng. v. West Indies (BNC) 252 They were all out for 189, the atmosphere helping the ball to move and swing around.
23. intransitive. Horticulture. Of a living plant: to be transplantable from one location, growing medium, etc., to another.
ΚΠ
1939 Country Life 11 Feb. p. xl/2 The kaffir lily, Schizostylis, which moves better now than in the autumn.
1980 Amateur Gardening 25 Oct. 10/1 This shrub..is much too close to your windows and should be moved after leaf fall. It should move alright but to be on the safe side a few cuttings can be taken.
24. intransitive. colloquial. Of music, a band, etc.: to be exciting, energetic, or dynamic.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz
go1926
ride1929
swing1931
tear1932
to play (it) straight1933
groove1935
riff1935
give1936
jumpc1938
to beat it out1945
walk1951
cook1954
move1955
wail1955
stretch1961
1955 Down Beat 6 Apr. 15 The only time it does start to move is in the second chorus, with Charlie Shavers.
1958 G. V. Kennard in R. J. Gleason Jam Session 176 ‘It's got to move,’ jazzmen say. If it doesn't ‘swing’, it's not jazz.
1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene 291 A band moves or drives or just goes.
1985 S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones x. 75 Some of those numbers used to really, really move.
II. To excite, arouse, stir up.
25.
†a. transitive (reflexive). To become excited or angry; to be perturbed. Also: to stir or rouse oneself to action. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > excitement > be or become excited [verb (reflexive)]
movec1300
to fire up1654
work1732
pique1749
hyped1938
the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (reflexive)]
i-wrathec1075
wratha1225
wrethec1275
movec1300
grieve1377
wrothc1425
anger?c1450
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 485 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 120 (MED) ‘Sire,’ quath þis holi man, ‘ne meue ȝe ov riȝt nouȝt.’
?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) 1570 (MED) Lat him ga..And moue vs now with him no mare.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 3523 (MED) Hym liste nat..gruche..Nor meue hym silf to parturbe his reste.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 209 (MED) Sir pylate, mefe you now no more bot mese youre hart.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9740 Hent vp your hert..Meue you with monhode to mar of your fos.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 96 Mufe the not at thair prosperitie.
b. transitive. To rouse or excite feeling in (a person); to affect with emotion, esp. with tender feeling or compassion; to stir (the feelings, etc.); to trouble, disquiet, perturb the mind of; to excite (to laughter, pity, tears, etc.). Frequently in passive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (intransitive)]
liveeOE
aliveeOE
ylivec950
won971
goc1225
movea1325
breathea1382
reigna1400
to pass on earth (also mould)c1400
to draw (one's) breath?1570
exist1578
respire1619
to tread clay, this earth, shoe leather1789
to grab on1861
to store the kin1866
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)]
rineOE
afaite?c1225
stir?c1225
movea1325
amovec1380
inspire1390
commove1393
informa1398
toucha1400
embracec1430
rore1481
alter1529
to carry away?1529
raise1533
removea1540
heavec1540
affect?1548
carry1570
inmove1583
infecta1586
worka1616
unthaw1699
emove1835
emotionize1855
emotion1875
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > upset or perturb [verb (transitive)]
to-wendc893
mingeOE
dreveOE
angerc1175
sturb?c1225
worec1225
troublec1230
sturble1303
disturbc1305
movea1325
disturblec1330
drubblea1340
drovec1350
distroublec1369
tempestc1374
outsturba1382
unresta1382
stroublec1384
unquietc1384
conturb1393
mismaya1400
unquemea1400
uneasec1400
discomfita1425
smite?a1425
perturbc1425
pertrouble?1435
inquiet1486
toss1526
alter1529
disquiet1530
turmoil1530
perturbate1533
broil1548
mis-set?1553
shake1567
parbruilyiec1586
agitate1587
roil1590
transpose1594
discompose1603
harrow1609
hurry1611
obturb1623
shog1636
untune1638
alarm1649
disorder1655
begruntlea1670
pother1692
disconcert1695
ruffle1701
tempestuate1702
rough1777
caddle1781
to put out1796
upset1805
discomfort1806
start1821
faze1830
bother1832
to put aback1833
to put about1843
raft1844
queer1845
rattle1865
to turn over1865
untranquillize1874
hack1881
rock1881
to shake up1884
to put off1909
to go (also pass) through a phase1913
to weird out1970
the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > affect with pity [verb (transitive)]
rueOE
movea1325
enpitec1400
relent1509
pity1515
yearn1603
melt1605
bowel1645
tenderize1733
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > cause or give rise to an emotion
rearOE
arear?c1225
annoyc1300
movea1325
excite1393
raisea1400
lighta1413
stirc1430
provokec1450
provocate?a1475
rendera1522
to stir upc1530
excitate?1549
inspire1576
yield1576
to turn up1579
rouse1589
urge1594
incense1598
upraisea1600
upreara1600
irritate1612
awakena1616
recreate1643
pique1697
arouse1730
unlull1743
energize1753
evocate1827
evoke1856
vibe1977
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 106 (MED) As Ihesus him entrede in-to Ierusalem..Al þe cyte was þo ymeoued & sede..‘What is he?’
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 7 (MED) Traianus was meoved by these wordes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9738 Merci me mous wit her praier.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 22 (MED) My witte es in a were, That moffes me mykill in my mynde.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 118 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 153 Þe folk with a sowdane cry þai mewit þan sa sodanly, þat þai war in wil for to stane þe apostollis.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lii. 75 Yf the knyght hadde be sore meuyd and sorowful of the deth of his first wyf.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Fviiiv They were so moued with hys preachynge that they returned home agayne.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xii. sig. M2 To disclose, Which of the Nymphes his heart so sore did mieue . View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Mark i. 41 And Iesus mooued with compassion, put foorth his hand, and touched him. View more context for this quotation
1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 20 They are soone moved to anger, and so malitious, that they seldome forget an injury.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 264 He commonly gave all he had about him, when he met an object that moved him.
1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. App. 220 When men are strongly moved, whatever they would affirm, or deny, with great earnestness, they naturally put in the form of a question.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 66 They were an ardent and impetuous race, easily moved to tears or to laughter, to fury or to love.
1896 T. F. Tout Edward I (ed. 2) iii. 50 All Christendom was terribly moved by the assassination.
1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider ix. 211 Percy Munn..was moved so that tears came to his eyes.
1990 Dalai Lama XIV Freedom in Exile vi. 119 I was deeply moved to be at the very place where the Lord Buddha had attained Enlightenment.
†c. transitive. to move one's blood (also mood): to become excited, agitated, or angry. to move a person's blood: to excite or stir a passion in a person. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > excitement > be or become excited [verb (intransitive)]
stira1000
resea1250
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
fluster1613
fever1632
foment1646
ferment1671
animate1779
self-excite1832
effervesce1850
to turn on1966
the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry
wrethec900
wrothc975
abelghec1300
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
to peck moodc1330
gremec1460
to take firea1513
fumec1522
sourdc1540
spitec1560
to set up the heckle1601
fire1604
exasperate1659
to fire up1779
to flash up1822
to get one's dander up1831
to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837
rile1837
to go off the handle1839
to flare up1840
to set one's back up1845
to run hot1855
to wax up1859
to get one's rag out1862
blow1871
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to turn up rough1872
to get the needle1874
to blaze up1878
to get wet1898
spunk1898
to see red1901
to go crook1911
to get ignorant1913
to hit the ceiling1914
to hit the roof1921
to blow one's top1928
to lose one's rag1928
to lose one's haira1930
to go up in smoke1933
hackle1935
to have, get a cob on1937
to pop (also blow) one's cork1938
to go hostile1941
to go sparec1942
to do one's bun1944
to lose one's wool1944
to blow one's stack1947
to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950
rear1953
to get on ignorant1956
to go through the roof1958
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
to lose ita1969
to blow a gasket1975
to throw a wobbler1985
the mind > emotion > passion > affect with passion or strong emotion [verb (transitive)]
passion1467
stir1490
passionate1566
appassionate1589
impassion1591
earnest1603
impassionatea1641
to move a person's blood1697
c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 355 (MED) King charle gan to meuen his blod, Bot naþeles he..nolde..Don..no vileinie.
c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 1240 (MED) Roulond..bi-gan to meuen his mood.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. 263 (MED) Why meuestow þi mode for a mote in þi brotheres eye?
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 16791 (MED) That bold mayden meved hir blod When sche tho tydandes vndirstode.
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) 248 (MED) How in her slepe meved was her mode.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 180 For to se this flode..Mefys nothing my mode.
1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. Iv Ah Beauty Syren fayre, enchaunting good,..Dombe eloquence, whose powre doth moue the blood, More then the words, or wisedome of the wise.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 When his Blood no Youthful Spirits move. View more context for this quotation
d. transitive. To provoke to anger; to make angry. Frequently in passive. Now only with explicit expression, as to move to anger: see sense 25b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (transitive)] > make angry
wrethec900
abelgheeOE
abaeileOE
teenOE
i-wrathec1075
wratha1200
awratha1250
gramec1275
forthcalla1300
excitea1340
grieve1362
movea1382
achafea1400
craba1400
angerc1400
mada1425
provokec1425
forwrecchec1450
wrothc1450
arage1470
incensea1513
puff1526
angry1530
despite1530
exasperate1534
exasper1545
stunt1583
pepper1599
enfever1647
nanger1675
to put or set up the back1728
roil1742
outrage1818
to put a person's monkey up1833
to get one's back up1840
to bring one's nap up1843
rouse1843
to get a person's shirt out1844
heat1855
to steam up1860
to get one's rag out1862
steam1922
to burn up1923
to flip out1964
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Esd. iv. 1 He wrathede gretli &, moued ful myche [a1425 L.V. was stirid greetli; L. motus nimis], scornede þe Jewis.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1217 Þan was ser Meliager moued & maynly debatis.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1128 ‘Sir Launcelot, why be ye so amoved?’.. Seyde sir Launcelot, 'why aske ye me that questyon? For mesemyth ye oughte to be more wrotther than I am.’
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) 234 Therfore let it moue no body, yf in the entreatynge of these matters, somtyme we [etc.].
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Buriall f. xxiiii* O Lorde, whiche for our synnes iustly art moued.
a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. v 'Tis not 500 Crownes that I esteeme; I am not mou'd at that: this angers me, That he [etc.].
1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews iii. xv, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 93 God was moved at their abuse of him, and would inflict punishment upon them.
†e. transitive. To stir up or excite (an emotion, an appetite, etc.) in a person; to provoke (a reaction, as laughter, contradiction, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate
stirc897
putOE
sputc1175
prokec1225
prickc1230
commovec1374
baitc1378
stingc1386
movea1398
eager?a1400
pokec1400
provokea1425
tollc1440
cheera1450
irritec1450
encourage1483
incite1483
harden1487
attice1490
pricklea1522
to set on1523
incense1531
irritate1531
animate1532
tickle1532
stomach1541
instigate1542
concitea1555
upsteer1558
urge1565
instimulate1570
whip1573
goad1579
raise1581
to set upa1586
to call ona1592
incitate1597
indarec1599
alarm1602
exstimulate1603
to put on1604
feeze1610
impulse1611
fomentate1613
emovec1614
animalize1617
stimulate1619
spura1644
trinkle1685
cite1718
to put up1812
prod1832
to jack up1914
goose1934
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 15 Fury loue, by þe which þe affeccioun of an angel is I-meued.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 126 And medle we nauȝt muche with hem to meuen any wrathe.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 132 Anon as he is chauffed, lecherye is meuyd in hym.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 838 (MED) My many-folde letters, my hevy hert & chere Movid his compassyon.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 841 To moue wilde laughter in the throate of death? View more context for this quotation
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ii1v Wherein if I haue differed from the ancient, and receiued doctrines, and thereby shall moue contradiction. View more context for this quotation
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence v. i 40 Your penitence does my compassion move.
1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 114 Images are very sparingly to be introduced;..their Use is to move Pity or Terror, Admiration [etc.].
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews Pref. p. xvi These unfortunate Circumstances, which at first moved our Compassion, tend only to raise our Mirth.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 442 That man should thus encroach on fellow man..Moves indignation.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 243 All the prejudices, all the exaggerations of both the great parties in the state, moved his scorn.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 26 Such delicious fruits as those with which Cato moved moved the astonishment and the envy of the senators.
†f. transitive. To stimulate or affect (a sense or faculty); to excite or evoke (a state, activity, etc., in a person). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > affect the senses [verb (transitive)]
movea1398
touch1534
the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > elicit or call forth
movea1398
drawa1400
provoke?a1425
askc1450
to draw out1525
to stir up1526
allure?1532
suscitate1532
to call out1539
to draw fortha1569
draw1581
attract1593
raise1598
force1602
fetch1622
milka1628
invite1650
summon1679
elicit1822
to work up?1833
educe1840
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 279v Castorium..exciteþ and moeueþ and comforteþ þe brayn.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. met. iv. 55 Cleernesse smyteth the eyen and moeveth hem to seen.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Djv All soundes and noyses that be made moue the hearyng, as coughyng.
1559 D. Lindsay Dreme in Wks. (1931) I. 28 Quhate dois mufe our Misere? Or quhareof dois proceid our pouertie?
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §978 It is said to moue Dreames also.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 116 His proper worke is both to lie, and to move lies in others.
†g. intransitive. To be excited (to some action); (of a passion or emotion) to stir. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > [verb (intransitive)] > become active (of emotions)
kindlea1400
quickena1400
move1483
rouse1671
work1814
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 37v Their flesshe began to meue and stire to concupiscence.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 70 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 108 The raked sparkes in flame began appeare, And staied Choller fresh again to moue.
†h. transitive. To exasperate or try (a person's patience). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] > put out of patience
move1597
out-patience1892
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 246 False boading woman, end thy frantike curse, Lest to thy harme thou moue our patience.
1606 J. Hind Eliosto Libidinoso 30 Lucilla..loath to move his patience by her deniall, answered: [etc.]
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 144 But Jack so moued their patience, they shot him.
1673 S. Pordage Herod & Mariamne v. ii. 54 Thou try'st by all extremities to move My long-kept Patience.
26.
a. transitive. To operate as a motive or influence on the will or belief of (a person); to prompt, actuate, impel (to an action, or to do something).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)]
movec1325
occasion?1529
to put in mind1579
act1597
motive1657
actuate1736
motivate1863
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9304 (MED) Ac an oþer reson wel ver meueþ more me þer to.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 133 The causes that oghten moeuen a man to contricioun been sixe.
c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) 2893 (MED) Ihesus..with hys argumentes gretly þam mewd.
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 31 (MED) He mai be moved or charmed or chaungyd bi craft of wordis.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lii. 177 What hathe moued the thus to do?
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiv. 97 Quhair money may ȝow moif, I hald it aweryce.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 634 Their furious minds more desirous of reuenge than money, were not to be moued with any gold.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 100 What reason shou'd thy Mind to Marriage move?
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. v. 81 What moves Men to build and plant but vanity.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vi. 236 He..was still unresolved, when the violence of the viceroy..moved him to quit his residence.
1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari iv. i, in Sardanapalus 257 I have prepared such arguments as will not Fail to move them.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xi. 630 The two great principles which move the world are the love of wealth and the love of knowledge.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xxi. 283 If they had had such a strong instinct toward self-preservation as to move them to kill that unarmed man, what had become of it now.
1959 J. Barzun House of Intellect iii. 71 It is not commercial greed or any clear advantage that moves one government official to butter up another in a distant bureau.
1995 Mojo 94/1 He was..ebullient and witty, and I was moved to open all the fire doors so that non-paying students could swell the numbers in the half-empty hall.
b. transitive. Of God or some other spiritual or supernatural force: to prompt, impel (to do something). the spirit moves me: (in the language of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)) used to introduce a prompting or urge attributed to the Holy Spirit; also (more generally) used to account for any impulse or inclination that is otherwise inexplicable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > impel or prompt
shapec1330
causec1340
servec1380
treat1387
movec1390
promove1477
promote1530
instinct1549
misgive1587
prompt1602
apprompt1605
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 293 Whan a man is moeued to do synne and deliteth hym..to thynke on that synne.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 412 (MED) Crist..myght mefe men to gif hym when hym nedid, wiþouten..askyng.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 11215 Wolde god yt stoode so That ye wer mevyd, & that a-noon, To passe the way that I shal gon.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 99 (MED) A devyl in helle..mevyd man to be so contraryous.
1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. C.iiii Do you trust that you are inwardly moued by the holy ghost to take vpon you this Office and ministracion..?
1656 G. Fox Jrnl. (1852) I. 271 The power of the Lord God arose in me, and I was moved in it ‘to bid him lay down his crown at the feet of Jesus’.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. x. 75 The Quaker began to be moved by some Spirit or other, probably that of Curiosity, and said, ‘Friend, I perceive some sad Disaster hath befallen thee.’ View more context for this quotation
1835 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) I. viii. 128 God moves us in order to make the beginning of duty easy.
1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 105 The spirit moves me to write you a letter.
1950 ‘W. Cooper’ Scenes Prov. Life III. ii. 164 You like to do things when you want to do them—when you feel like it. When the spirit moves you, my dear.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life ii. iv. 141 Day and night I hear this trash, and the Lord has moved me to strike it down!
c. intransitive. To operate as a motive or influence on the will or belief of a person. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1573 J. Davidson Breif Commendatioun Vprichtnes xl. 90 Becaus exempills fetchit far Mufis not so muche as thay thingis quhilk we se.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 52 I feare these stubborne lines lacke power to moue . View more context for this quotation
1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) iv. sig. K1v To make th'example moue more forceably to vertue.
1982 T. Clark Under Fortune Palms 29 Color with power to make men forget slow exile days Knowledge w/o [i.e. without] power to move.
†d. transitive. To cause (a person) to think or believe (that); to convince. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)]
persuadec1450
ensurec1500
satisfyc1520
convict1583
forcea1586
move1590
possess1591
secure1602
confirm1607
convince1609
convince1632
induce1655
prepossessa1676
coax1676
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. ii. v I am strongly mou'd, That if I should desire the Persian crown, I could attain it with a wondrous ease.
†27.
a. transitive. [Compare classical Latin arma, bellum, tragoedias movēre; compare also Anglo-Norman mover guerre and Old French mouvoir guerre to make war upon (mid 12th cent.); Middle French mouvoir armes to take arms (mid 16th cent. in Rabelais).] To stir up, initiate, commence (strife, war, or other turbulent action). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up > specifically a thing or condition
stira1023
movea1382
energize1753
rouse1786
poke1851
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xix. 8 Eft forsoþe is moeued bataile.
c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2839 Ye wol moeue werre and bataille.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 206 (MED) Jon..moued þer a strif.
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 74 It is a foul þing to be a debatour and to meve riotis.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 105 (MED) Though this dissencion be nat movet amongist vs.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) ii. i. 17 Oþir nacionys..Þat latthe was bargan for to moyff.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 178 Odo..moued many Tragedies within this Realme, and was in the end throwen from the Stage.
1585 Act 27 Eliz. c. 2 §1 Seminarie Priestes..stire up and move Sedition, Rebellion and open Hostilitie within her Highnesse Realmes.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 78 His foure Sonnes..rose in Armes, and moued warre against him.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xxxvii. 169 Turn him [sc. the cock] into the Pit to move his fortune.
b. intransitive. Of a war, strife, or other turbulent action: to break out, be stirred up. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > become active or come into operation > be stirred up or aroused
wakenOE
wakea1450
move1485
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 9 There moeued a stryf betwyxte the barons & knyȝtes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 551 We sall do nocht les than it mowe in ȝow.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. iv. (heading) The occasion wherby the warre moued bitwene the kyngis of Fraunce and Ingland.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 44 Be bissie now to banisch all debatis Betuix kirkmen and temporall men dois mufe.
III. To propose, put forward, say, solicit.
28.
†a. transitive. To plead (a cause or suit) in a court; to bring (an action at law). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)]
bringc1000
move1379
pursue1384
leada1400
suea1422
raise1436
maintain1456
conceive1467
persecute1483
implead1554
suscitate1560
solicit?a1562
intenda1578
intent1630
1379–80 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 2 Nowthir I no myn ayres..may..aganis thaim questioun or plede moue in tyme to cum.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 125 Ȝif [printed zif] pleynt be moved in the court of the same toun of Gippeswiche.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 507 (MED) There was I-meved a plee by a breef of the kyngis that is I-called a ‘Cessauit per biennium’.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 145 (MED) Loke thow fayle nought Thy sentence to yeue without favour so, Lyke as thou hast herde the causys meuyd the to.
1571–2 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 129 The awnaris thairof wald move actioun aganis him thairfoir.
1649 W. Sheppard Court-Keepers Guide ix. 48 He that is a common barretor, i. that takes parties, and moves suits, and that commonly for small matters, and taking the worst side.
b. transitive. To propose formally in a court or deliberative assembly that something be done, or to do something.Occasionally (esp. in earlier use) used in less formal contexts.
ΚΠ
1431 in H. T. Riley Annales Monasterii S. Albani (1870) i. 453 (MED) To alle the Lordys of the reme of this present Parlement, we besechyn mekely alle the comuns to ben herd of hem, mevyng that thei may have of the temporaltes as be Bysshoppys, Abbotys, and Priours, occupyud and wasted yvel wyth ynne the reme, fifteen Erledoms.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 472 Nowe, brethir myne, sen we all meffe To teche þe feithe to foo and frende, Oure tarying may turn vs to mischeffe.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ddd3 The two frogs, which consulted when their plash was drie, whether they should go: and the one mooued to go down into a pit because it was not likely the water would dry there. View more context for this quotation
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 20 I moved first that the L. Chancellor be brought to the barre.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 300 In free Debate, my Friends, your Sentence speak: For me, I move, before the Morning break To raise our Camp.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. viii. 661 It was moved by Mr. Stables..that the inquiry should be instituted.
1886 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 11 Dec. 196/1 The plaintiff now moved that the foreclosure be made absolute.
1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 151 I move we adjourn.
1943 S. Kingsley Patriots (1956) Prologue. 249 I move to strike out the clause condemning the slave traffic.
1971 G. Brown In My Way xi. 219 At the Executive meeting which followed that day, Peggy Herbison moved that the Party should accept Mr Cousins's kind offer to reprint and circulate the Gaitskell speech.
1992 Orcadian 16 Apr. 22/2 Mr J. B. Flett..moved that a new strimmer be purchased for use at the Harray Kirkyard and this was carried unanimously.
c. transitive. To propose (a question, resolution, etc.) formally in a court or deliberative assembly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > put forward [verb (transitive)]
laya1387
proposea1398
stirc1400
move1452
propound?1531
broach1579
start1579
moot1685
to set up1697
argument1747
1452 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 68 (MED) To kepe all cownsayll of all matters that bene mewit in the sembles.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 265 Quhen this was mufit to all the counsall thair Thair was na man the questioun culd declair.
1789 W. Pitt in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 93 Your Lordship would undertake to move the Address.
1828 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 141 Mr. C. Grant moved the order of the day.
1838–42 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) III. xliv. 147 The resolutions which he moved were..unanimously adopted.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 24 The opposition moved the previous question.
1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 141 The Resolution which has appeared upon the Paper and which I now, Mr. Speaker, have the honour to move.
1986 M. Foot Loyalists & Loners 83 It was on a motion moved by George at the pre-1939 war Labour Party Conference that Stafford Cripps was expelled from the Party.
d. intransitive. To make an application, proposal, or request (now only of a formal nature) for something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > make or present a petition
to put (up) a billa1387
procurea1500
move1638
pray1754
memorial1764
1638 H. Spelman in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 154 I gave my Lord of Eely thanks in your behalfe, and moved also for the continuance of his favour about the Lyving you ayme at.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 111 My business now was to have leave my self, which indeed I had moved for at a distance before.
a1707 S. Patrick Auto-biogr. (1839) 76 I moved for a physician to be sent to her from Oxford.
1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. at Motion One ought not to move for several Things in one Motion.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. E. India House 64/1 The Chairman said it was customary, when papers were moved for, that the sense of the court should be taken on the motion before they were produced.
1828 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 19 345 The Duke of Richmond said, that in rising to move for a Committee to inquire into the state of the Wool-trade, he [etc.].
1868 A. Helps Realmah (1876) ix. 244 Cranmer was prepared to move for the destruction of all fables.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xi. 112 This must be followed up. You must move for papers.
1969 Hansard Lords 305 917 The Earl of Selkirk rose to call attention to the Report of the Review Committee on Overseas Representation..and to move for papers.
1989 Scotsman 26 May 3 He moved for suspension at presbytery.
†29.
a. transitive. To speak or say (a word, etc.). Later: to utter or put forth (a sound, etc.). Also with clause as object. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (transitive)]
stira1000
sendc1200
movea1382
raisec1400
demean1483
emit1826
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xliv. 22 We meueden to þee, my lord: þe child may not leue his fader.
a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 235 (MED) Lyke to þese mo gan he moue, Þat kytte here hertys.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 281 He..Shulde neuere..Waste worde of ydelnesse ne wykked speche meue.
c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) 10429 (MED) That sat anna mevyng hir mone Bytwene hir-self and god allone.
a1500 (?c1414) Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms 18 (MED) It is gret nede this woord to meve, ‘Ne reminiscaris, Domine.’
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 17 And so good father may I say of thy cottage..that mouing but speach of thy soueraigne, it will be more like a court then a cabbin, and of a prison the name of Elizabeth will make it a pallace.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 158 There is no creature that will more stirre, barke, and moue noise, then one of these against thiefe or wilde beast.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 37 Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers. View more context for this quotation
1672 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 6) i. 58 A full Chorus of four or five Parts; which moveth a kind of Heavenly Harmony.
b. intransitive. [Compare Old French movoir de (c1200).] To speak, treat, or argue (of a matter). Also in passive with non-referential it as subject. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > discourse or lecture
carpa1375
movec1400
descant1536
discourse1547
lecturea1592
homilize1624
dissert1657
lecturize1661
pronounce1663
to hold forth1668
to hold out1689
sermonize1753
dissertate1766
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ii. 123 (MED) Ac of þis matere no more meue ich nelle.
c1450 (?a1400) Quatrefoil of Love (BL Add.) (1935) 41 (MED) To moue of a mater now walde I be-gyn.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) clxxvii Moving within my spirit of this sight.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 138 I durst never of the matter meve Unto your person, lest it should you greve.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 139 It should be meved To her of love.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. ccclviiv This..shulde be the wexyng tre of whiche ye first meued.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7206 Of þat mater was meuit no more at þat tyme.
c. intransitive. Of speech: to be uttered. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > be spoken or flow (of words)
move1508
to pass the lips (also mouth)1526
come1582
roll1599
distil1610
to come out1653
mouth1762
utter1792
on-flow1863
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dv Thair wes na word muuand Sa war thair all stil.
†30.
a. transitive. To propose or suggest (something to be done); to prefer (a request); to lodge (a complaint); to bring forward, propound (a question, etc.), mention (a matter). Also with to (a person). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > propose
proffera1375
movea1382
adjustc1450
advance1509
to make words1645
offer1660
overturea1665
volunteer1818
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xxv. 24 Bytwene þe smytere & þe ny of þe blood, þe questyon were meued [L. quaestio ventilata].
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ix. 113 (MED) I ne durste meue no mater to make hym to iangle.
c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 320 If he can replye Ageyns these poynts that ye han to hym meved.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 304 (MED) When Saynt Petur prechid, þer was som þat wolde mofe vnto hym vnprofitable questions.
1524 J. Alen in J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen Cal. Carew MSS. (1867) I. 25 The doubts that I moved to your Grace.
?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. E.iv I coulde ryght well ten tymes sonner all that haue beleued Then the tenth parte of that he hath meued.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 129 The like Surprize, may be made, by Mouing things, when the Party is in haste, and cannot stay, to consider aduisedly, of that is moued.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iv. 55 To Indamora you my Suit must move.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 193 The third Difficulty moved concerning this matter is whether the Grant was made for all the Lands of the Kingdom.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 561 No man ever had the impudence to move to him any thing with relation to the King's life.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. v, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 370 Elizabeth..did not expect that he would have moved any such difficulty.
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 19 Jan. 2/4 The Editors of newspapers in the Southern sections of the Union ‘have moved the question’ who shall be the next President.
b. transitive. To consider (a question or matter) in one's mind. In quots. with clause as object. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
showeOE
i-mune971
thinkOE
overthinkOE
takec1175
umbethinkc1175
waltc1200
bethinkc1220
wend?c1225
weighc1380
delivera1382
peisea1382
considerc1385
musec1390
to look over ——a1393
advise?c1400
debatec1400
roll?c1400
revert?a1425
advertc1425
deliberc1425
movec1425
musec1425
revolvec1425
contemplec1429
overseec1440
to think overc1440
perpend1447
roil1447
pondera1450
to eat inc1450
involvec1470
ponderate?a1475
reputec1475
counterpoise1477
poisea1483
traversec1487
umbecast1487
digest1488
undercast1489
overhalec1500
rumble1519
volve?1520
compassa1522
recount1526
trutinate1528
cast1530
expend1531
ruminate1533
concoct1534
contemplate1538
deliberate1540
revolute1553
chawa1558
to turn over1568
cud1569
cogitate1570
huik1570
chew1579
meditatec1580
discourse1581
speculate1599
theorize1599
scance1603
verse1614
pensitate1623
agitate1629
spell1633
view1637
study1659
designa1676
introspect1683
troll1685
balance1692
to figure on or upon1837
reflect1862
mull1873
to mull over1874
scour1882
mill1905
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2716 (MED) In hir wittes gan besely to meve, As sche rometh..On any syde ȝif þer were obstacle.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 5763 (MED) He moned [read moved] and moysid in his mynde Þat þe se passid his kynde.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 166 Conjectering and moving in his mynd quhome this sould be.
31.
†a. transitive. To urge or incite (a person) to an action, or to do something; to apply or appeal to; to make a proposal or request to. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > exhort
movea1382
enhort1382
exhortc1475
cohort1481
adhorta1500
urge1565
engage1647
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Judges xiv. 15 Fage to þi man & moeue [a1425 L.V. counseile; L. suade] hym þat he schewe to þee what betokneþ þe probleme.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 4 I haue folwed þe in feithe..And many tymes haue moeued þe to þinke on þine ende.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 527 (MED) A preste movid ane vsurar, when he was seke, to dispose hym for þe heale of his sawle.
1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 600 I promysed hym my poore helpe as ferforthe as I durst meve your good lordshepp for hym.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .iv The scripture moueth vs in sondrye places, to acknowledge and confesse our manyfolde synnes and wyckednesse.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 84 He had earnestly moved her Majesty to give him leave to come over for a short time.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer Visit. Sick (rubric) Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 5 I..begged him..that he would move the Captains to take some pity on us.
†b. transitive. To apply to or solicit (a person) for something, or in or of a matter. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > appeal to or invoke
halsec825
askOE
witnec1200
halsenc1290
calla1325
incalla1340
to speak to ——1362
interpel1382
inclepec1384
turnc1384
becallc1400
ethec1400
peala1425
movec1450
provoke1477
adjure1483
invoke1490
conjurea1500
sue1521
invocatea1530
obtest1548
obtestate1553
to throw oneself on (or upon)1592
obsecrate1598
charm1599
to cry on ——1609
behight1615
imprecate1643
impray1855
c1450 ( Crowned King 135 in W. W. Skeat Langland's Piers Plowman (1873) 529 (MED) My liege lord, of this mater y meve you no more.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) Prol. 32 To meuve him of mysserewle his mynde to reffresshe.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 2 (MED) For mater þat my mynde is meved in now.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1760 (MED) The Sowdon..ganne his councell to meve Of that mater..And Askid ther avise.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xxi. 55 Did therfore moue ye King of Calicut by a messenger for license to send the same.
1628 Sir J. Oglander Mem. (1888) 40 I theyre mooved his Matie for paye for theyre bilettinge, and for ye fortifyinge of owre Island.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 297 If he desired any thing..he would move the King in it.
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) i. 1 If you want money..you move me for further supplies.
c. transitive. To make a formal application, suit, or request to (a monarch, a court, Parliament, etc.). Frequently with that-clause, infinitive, or for.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > petition
procurea1387
motion1476
solicit1530
supplication1593
supplicate1601
petition1607
petitionate1624
move1633
address1698
bill1722
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 140 King of Glorie, King of Peace, I will love thee: And that love may never cease, I will move thee. Thou hast granted my request, Thou hast heard me.
1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania iii. 167 He moved the company that the arrogant fool might be put out of the Room.
1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 464 He would move the Parliament to have my Statue set up.
1739 Hist. Wks. Learned I. 48 Dr. Reynolds..moved his Majesty, on the second Day of the Dispute, that there might be a New Translation of the Bible.
1772 Ld. Mansfield in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Pref. p. xxi If the paper be not criminal..he may move the court in arrest of judgement.
1796 J. Anstey Pleader's Guide i. 33 Down to the Hall of Erebus I'll go, And move some Dæmon in the Courts below.
1816 Ann. Reg. 20 The Earl of Liverpool moved the House..on the subject of an address upon the treaties.
1877 Willis v. Bp. of Oxf. in Law Rep., Prob. Div. 2 203 Dr. Swabey..moved the Court to dismiss the defendant from the suit.
1885 Standard 20 Mar. 6/1 The Bank now moved the Court..for..a reversal of the verdict.
1992 Financial Sunday Express (New Delhi) 13 Sept. 1/6 His family has decided to move the Special Court..for adequate ‘maintenance expenses’ to run the household.

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs in specialized senses. to move about
intransitive. To change position continually; spec. to change one's place of residence repeatedly.
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1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 30 If Infinites of Worlds they must be plac'd At such a distance, as between lies waste. If they were joyned close, moving about, By justling they would push each other out.
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions v. 44 Souls which have been encas'd in Flesh, but being unhous'd are now moving about.
1751 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) ii. 5 I have been moving about from place to place.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvi. 235 Mrs. Hannah moved about with starched dignity among the rustics.
1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxviii I must say that I don't like moving about from one home to another.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love v. 54 He had rooms in Nottingham... But often he was in London, or in Oxford. He moved about a great deal.
1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 277 Momma was moving about the sunstruck room.
 to move along
intransitive. To continue on one's way; (of a person) to change to a new position, esp. so as to avoid causing an obstruction; cf. to move on at Phrasal verbs. Frequently in imperative.
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1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xviii, in Cent. Mag. May 21/1 Yes, it's diff'rent from yo'n! Shet de light out en move along—here 's de key.
1977 ‘J. Herriot’ Vets might Fly (BNC) 31 ‘Next, please,’ murmured the dentist. ‘But Mr Grover said..’ ‘Next man! Move along!’ bawled the orderly.
1992 M. J. Staples Pearly Queen (BNC) 99 ‘Move along, move along,’ said the constable.
 to move aside
intransitive. To step away or to one side; to withdraw, get out of the way. Also figurative.
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1829 L. Woods Lect. Inspiration Script. p. v Our belief, resting on such a basis, is not to be moved aside by any difficulties or objections which the wisdom of this world can suggest.
1857 Littell's Living Age 11 Apr. 119/2 She did not start, she did not move aside an inch, when the landlady returned and led Mr. Frankland to his wife.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) II. 142 She moved aside out of the doorway, moved slowly and stealthily, step by step, till I lost her past the edge of the boat-house.
1972 R. Allen Skinhead Escapes xv. 91 John waited until Joe moved aside and slammed Stan over the head with a tire-iron.
1994 Interzone Apr. 30/1 It's time for the British film establishment to move aside and make way for a new generation of asskicking, jivetalking funsters.
 to move in
1. intransitive. To take up residence with another person; to take possession of a new place of residence; to occupy new premises. (In figurative context in quot. 1850.)With on in quot. 1945; cf. to move on 2 at Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > together
usec1384
hive1600
cohabit1601
cohabitate1624
co-inhabit1624
roof1636
to move in1850
to live in each other's pockets1934
shack1935
to live together1961
1850 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 499/1 Half a dozen blocks away the city's first public bath house is at last going up, after many delays, and godliness will have a chance to move in with cleanliness.
1857 Witching Times 626/2 Sarah Carrier was very eager to patch up her modest duds, and move in with the newly-married people.
1898 G. B. Shaw You never can Tell i. 216 I spent my last sovereign on moving in; and I havnt paid a shilling of rent yet.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xviii. 433 You might as well move in at Sherry's.
1945 E. Bowen Demon Lover 91 Mona moved out..and moved in on Isobel.
1966 Listener 6 Jan. 14/2 The society was formed about four years ago... We still have not moved in.
1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists xvii. 124 Although she had lived there for almost a year, the apartment looked as if she had just moved in.
1999 P. Straub Mr. X xv. 77 After Star discovered that she was pregnant, I [suggested]..that she move in with me.
2. intransitive. To approach, esp. with the purpose of attacking, trapping, or threatening; to close in on a target or victim; to become involved in or take control of a situation, institution, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to
runOE
to seek on (also upon)c1230
pursuec1300
yerna1400
seek1487
visitc1515
coast1531
accost1597
to come at ——1601
to make against ——1628
to make at ——1637
tilt1796
rush1823
to come for ——1870
to move in1941
bum-rush1988
1941 N. Coward Austral. Visited vii. 47 God help us when the scenery and properties move in on us, when we have to adapt ourselves to new settings and different furniture.
1967 J. Redgate Killing Season (1968) ii. xviii. 147 We'll give him a few months to get entrenched in England... Then we'll move in on him.
1971 Morning Star 4 Feb. 1 The Government moved in, making an exception in its policy of not helping lame duck companies.
1985 A. Lurie Foreign Affairs ii. 34 He would advise Fred to move in on the girl in the green cape and try to score tonight.
1999 Constr. News 24 June 6/2 If there are companies in the construction industry not equal to the challenge there will be no shortage of others ready to move in.
 to move off
1. intransitive. To set off, depart, go away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1692 E. Settle 1st Pt. Notorious Impostor 21 Tom and he next morning move off to Bath.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew To Rattle, to move off, or be gone.
1798 Lady Hunter Let. in M. Hunter Jrnl. (1894) 122 Our formidable appearance panic-struck them, and they were moving off.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xxi. 384 They..moved off as slowly as their horses could step.
1861 C. J. Andersson Okavango River 94 They [sc. elephants] would then as suddenly move off at full speed.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xvii. 274 The little group of people then began to move off in the same direction.
1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country xxv. 367 The motorman, instead of moving off immediately, waited a moment.
1990 M. Collins Rain Darling 102 He didn't say not a word; he just move off like a cut-tail dog as if he fraid people see him.
†2. intransitive. colloquial. To die. Cf. to go off 6a at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 10 Whether from the fall or the fright, the Major mov'd off in a month.
 to move on
1. intransitive. To continue to move; to restart one's journey, advance to another place; (figurative) to develop, to progress from one stage, subject, etc., to another. Frequently with to.
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1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 80 Where nothing hinders, (as beyond the utmost bounds of all Bodies,) a Body put into motion may move on.
1746 B. Franklin Let. 16 Oct. in Papers (1961) III. 88 Tis allowed [by all] that a Body IA, moving with a Velocity IC, and [a Force I]F, striking another Body IA at Rest, they [will after]wards move on together.
1816 J. Austen Emma II. v. 78 Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife. ‘We had better move on, Mr Weston,’ said she, ‘we are detaining the girls.’
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 59 Then the tale Shall move on soberly.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxxv Gabriel and Coggan began to move on.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. ii. 23 After they had shaken hands across the hedge that came almost to their shoulders, Susan began to move on.
1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys E. London iii. 49 They would often try to move on from kissing to sexual play.
1989 T. Parks Family Planning 67 As if times hadn't moved on while she's been away.
1995 Artists & Illustrators Apr. 29 For the final stage I move on to smaller brushes, using a no 5 filbert to work in the finer details of the blossom.
†2. intransitive. = to move in at Phrasal verbs. Obsolete. rare.
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1792 G. G. Beekman Let. 2 Oct. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1258 Your Father..has signed Articles of Agreement to take a Farm..and to allow lawful Interest from 1st May 92 when he took the Farm and moved on shortly after.
3. intransitive. To proceed away from a place where one is considered, esp. by a police officer, to have stood too long and to be causing an obstruction. Frequently in imperative.
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1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 83/2 He [sc. a police officer] possesses the power..of ordering them to ‘move on’.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xx. 196 In vain policemen told them to move on; fresh groups gathered after the seceders.
1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind iv. 45 ‘Move on,’ said the voice of a policeman behind them.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage c. 526 He awoke with a start, dreaming that he was being shaken by a policeman and told to move on.
1999 I. Rankin Dead Souls xvii. 128 He managed an hour's kip on a bench, until a policeman told him to move on.
4. transitive. Of a police officer, etc.: to cause or order (a person) to continue on his or her way.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [verb (transitive)] > specific activities of policeman
to move on1894
bust1964
baton charge1976
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > under orders from policeman
to move on1915
1894 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Jan. 56/2 The proceedings were..abruptly closed by the intervention of the police, who ‘moved on’ the preacher.
1915 F. Hodgson Burnett Lost Prince x. 101 Policemen had moved him on whenever they set eyes on him.
1989 Q Mar. 10/1 The editor of Manchester United's Red News, is always ‘moved on’ when selling his title outside Old Trafford.
5. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. to move on up: to increase one's status, social standing, prestige, etc.; to improve one's quality of life.
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1946 W. H. Brewster Move on up Little Higher (song) 2 One of these evenings..I'm going home to live on high... I'm going to move on up a little higher..meet Abraham and Isaac.]
1970 C. Mayfield Move on Up (song) 1 Just move on up Towards your destination Though you may find from time to time Complications.
1973 Black Panther 22 Sept. 17/1 Such groups..sing of lost hope, lost love, of movin' on up, of things getting better.
1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 May 28/1 A young Irish American..who pursues his dream of moving on up in ivied eastern schools and colleges.
 to move out
1. intransitive. To depart, decamp; to set out on a journey.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1792 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1849) App. 1126 He moved out with the Federal troops..together with Captain Ferguson's company of artillery, and three pieces of ordnance.
1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 248 The adventuring detachment has been allowed to move out unchecked.
1897 B. Stoker Dracula xix. 259 The rats were multiplying in thousands, and we moved out.
1959 F. Bodsworth Strange One (1960) i. i. 3 The barnacle goose..had been restless and more than normally alert since the last of the flock moved out the day before.
1992 N. Gordimer Jump & other Stories 164 The first star in the haze is the mast-light of a ship moving out, slipping moorings, breaking with this world.
2. intransitive. To leave a place of residence to live elsewhere; to end one's occupancy of a place.
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1843 L. M. Child Lett. from N.Y. xl. 273 It is the custom here, for those who move out to leave the accumulated dust and dirt of the year, for them who enter to clear up.
1891 A. Conan Doyle Red-headed League in Strand Mag. Aug. He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 July 7/5 We have our eyes on some splendid billets, and will be ‘johnny on the spot’ when the present residents move out.
1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 29 Mother moved out in protest against the life he had led her.
 to move over
intransitive. To make room, give way; (colloquial) to yield to something more successful, advanced, up to date, etc. Frequently in imperative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat > out of the way
to give rooma1350
to stand backc1390
to make way?a1425
to stand aback?a1439
to make rooma1450
roomc1450
give wayc1515
to give by1633
shunt1869
to move over1914
extend2000
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn vii. 91 He did go up to the rail and sit, shyly kicking his feet, beside her... She moved over an inch or two [and] glanced at him.
1953 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor at Sea i. 16 Move over, Second, and let the Doctor park his fanny.
1993 Pop. Sci. Dec. 79/2 Move over buckyballs. Now there are new stars in the chemical heavens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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