Re*move" , n.
1. The act
of removing; a removal.
This place should be at
once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other
house of scholarship.
Milton.
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Goldsmith. 2.
The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; - - in the United States usually called
a move.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
J. H. Newman.
3. The state of being removed.
Locke.
4. That which is removed, as a
dish removed from table to
make room for something else.
5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step
or degree in any scale
of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two
removes last year.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
Addison. 6. (Far.) The act of resetting a
horse's shoe. Swift.
Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. i. To change place in any manner, or to
make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I can not taint with fear.
Shak. &fist; The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply
remove to a mere change
of posture, without a change of place or the
seat of a thing. A man
moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but
he does not
remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the
wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic
term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from
one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.
Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Removing.]
[OF. removoir,
remouvoir, L. removere, remotum;
pref. re- re- +
movere to move. See Move.]
1. To move
away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
Deut.
xix. 14. When we had dined, to
prevent the ladies' leaving
us, I generally ordered the table to be
removed.
Goldsmith. 2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away;
hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. "King Richard thus removed."
Shak.
3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many
postmasters.
&fist; See the Note
under Remove,
v. i.
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