admove

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admoveō (“I move, bring, conduct, lead, or carry someone or something to or toward”).

Verb

admove (third-person singular simple present admoves, present participle admoving, simple past and past participle admoved)

1. (obsolete) To move toward.
   • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     Thus if unto the powder of Loadstone or Iron we admove the North pole of the Loadstone, the powders or small divisions will erect and conform themselves thereto: but if the South pole approach, they will subside, and inverting their bodies respect the Loadstone with the other extream.

References

• “admove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• amoved

Latin

Verb

admovē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of admoveō