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 or conduct to or 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “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