remount 
remount (re-mount'), H. [< remount, r.] The 
opportunity or means of remounting ; specifi- 
cally, a fresh horse with its furniture; also, a 
supply of fresh horses for cavalry. 
removability (re-mo-va-bil'j-ti), H. [< rc- 
iHoruble + -itij (see -liility).] The capacity of 
being removable, as from an office or a station ; 
liability to removal. 
removable ( re-mo 'va-bl), . [< remove + -able. 
Cf. Pg. remor'irel = It. rimovimle.] Capable of 
being removed ; admitting of or subject to re- 
moval, as from one place to another, or from 
an office or station. 
Such curate is removable at the pleasure of the rector 
of the mother church. Ayliffe, Parergon. 
The wharves at the water level are provided with a 
railroad and with removable freight sheds. 
Harper's May., LXXIX. 92. 
removably (re-mo'va-bli), adv. So as to admit 
of removal : as, a box fitted removably. 
removal (re-mo'val), . [(remove + -a?.] The 
act of removing, in any sense of that word. =Syn. 
Displacement, dislodgment, transference, withdrawal, dis- 
missal, ejection, elimination, suppression, abatement. 
remove (re-mov'), r.; pret. and pp. removed, 
ppr. removing. [Early mod. E. also rcmeve; < 
ME. removen, remeven, < OF. 'remover, *remou- 
rer, later removoir, remoui'oir = Sp. Pg. remover 
= It. rimuocere, remuovere, < L. removere, move 
back, draw back, set aside, remove, < re-, back, 
+ movere, move: see mope.] I. trans. 1. To 
move from a position occupied; cause to change 
place; transfer from one point to another; put 
from its place in any manner. 
To trusten som wyght is a preve 
Of trouthe, and forthy wolde I fayne remeve 
Thy wrong conceyte. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 691. 
Remeve thi rewle up and down til that the stremes of 
the sonne shyne thorgh bothe holes of thi rewle. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. 2. 
Whan the! saugh Claudas men assembled thei smote 
on hem so harde that thei made hem remeve place. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), iii. 410. 
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark. 
Deut. xix. 14. 
Moved ! in good time ; let him that moved you hither 
Remove you hence. Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 197. 
Does he not see that he is only removing the difficulty 
one step farther? Macaulay, Sadler's Refutation Refuted. 
2. To displace from an office, post, or situation. 
He removed the Bishop of Hereford from being Trea- 
surer, and put another in his Place. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 146. 
But does the Court a worthy man remove, 
That instant, I declare, he has my love. 
Pope, Epil. to Satires, ii. 74. 
3. To take or put away in any manner; take 
away by causing to cease ; cause to leave or 
depart; put an end to; do away with; banish. 
Remove sorrow from thy heart. Eccl. xi. 10. 
Good God, betimes remove 
The means that makes us strangers ! 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 162. 
What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? 
Pope, Viol, to Satires, 1. 29. 
If the witch could produce disease by her incantations, 
there was no difficulty in believing that she could also 
remove it. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 92. 
4. To make away with ; cut off ; take away by 
death: as, to remove a person by poison. 
When he 'a removed, your highness 
Will take again your queen as yours at first. 
Shak., W. T.,i. 2.335. 
Forgive my grief for one removed, 
Thy creature, whom I found so fair. 
I trust he lives in thee. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Int. 
5. In law, to transfer from one court to another. 
Wee remove our cause into our adversaries owne Court. 
Milton, Prelatical Episcopacy. 
= Syn. 1. To dislodge, transfer. 2. To dismiss, eject, 
oust. 3. To abate, suppress. 
II. intrans. To change place in any manner; 
move from one place to another; change the 
place of residence: as, to remove from Edin- 
burgh to London. 
Merlin seide he neded not nothinge ther-of hym to 
prayen, and bad make hem redy, ''for to-morowe moste 
we remove." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 360. 
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane 
I cannot taint with fear. Shak., Macbeth, v. S. 2. 
They [the Carmelite nuns] remove shortly from that 
wherein they now live to that which is now building. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 18. 
remove (re-mov'), . [< remove, v.~\ 1. The 
act of removing, or the state of being removed ; 
removal ; change of place. 
I do not know how he (the King] will possibly avoid 
. . . the giving way to the remove of divers persons, as 
. . . will be demanded by the parliament. 
Ijord Northumberland (1640), quoted in Hallam's Const. 
[Hist., II. 105. 
319 
5073 
Not to feed your ambition with a dukedom, 
By the remote of Alexander, but 
To serve your country. Shirley, The Traitor, ii. 1. 
Three removes is as bad as a fire. 
Franklin, Way to Wealth. 
2. The distance or space through which any- 
thing is removed; interval; stage; step; es- 
pecially, a step in any scale of gradation or 
descent. 
That which we boast of is not anything, or at the most 
but a remove from nothing. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 60. 
Our cousins too, even to the fortieth renwve, all re- 
membered their affinity. Goldsmith, Vicar, i. 
3. In English public schools: (a) Promotion 
from one class or division to another. 
Keeping a good enough place to get their regular yearly 
remove. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 9. 
The desire of getting his remove with Julian. 
F. W. Farrar, Julian Home, iii. 
Hence (6) A class or division. 
When a boy comes to Eton, he is "placed" by the head 
master in some class, division, or remove. 
Westminster Rev., X. S., XIX. 496. 
4f. A posting-stage ; the distance between two 
resting-places on a road. 
Here 's a petition from a Florentine, 
Who hath for four or five removes come short 
To tender it herself. Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 131. 
5f. The raising of a siege. 
If they set down before 's, for the remove 
Bring up your army. Shak., Cor., i. 2. 28. 
6f. The act of changing a horse's shoe from one 
foot to another, or for a new one. 
His horse wanted two removes, your horse wanted nails. 
Swift, Advice to Servants (Groom). 
7. A dish removed from table to make room 
for something else ; also, a course. 
removed (re-movd'), p. a. [< ME. removed; pp. 
ot remove, v.] Remote; separate from others; 
specifically, noting a grade of distance in rela- 
tionship and the like: as, "a lie seven times 
removed," Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 71. 
Look, with what courteous action 
It waves you to a more removed ground. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 61. 
The nephew is two degrees removed from the common 
ancestor: viz., his own grandfather, the father of Titius. 
Blackstone, Com., II. xiv. 
removedness (re-mo'ved-nes), n. The state of 
being removed ; remoteness ; retirement. 
I have eyes under my service, which look upon his re- 
movedness. Shak., W. T., IT. 2. 41. 
remover 1 (re-rno'ver), n. [< remove + -cfl.] 
1. One who' or that which removes: as, a re- 
mover of landmarks. 
Love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds, 
Or bends with the remover to remove. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxvi. 
2t. An agitator. 
A hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover. 
Bacon, Fortune (ed. 1887). 
remover 2 (re-mo' ver), M. [< OF. "remover, inf. 
used as a noun : see remove, v.'] In law, the 
removal of a suit from one court to another. 
Bouvier. 
Remphan (rem'fan), . [LL. Bempham, Or. 
'Pe/afiav (N. T.), 'Paufiv (LXX.).] 1. A name of 
a god mentioned in Acts vii. 43. 2. [NL.] 
In cntom., a genus of coleopterous insects. 
Waterhouse, 1836. 
rempli (ron-ple'), a. [< F. rempli, pp. of remplir, 
fill up, < re- + emplir, fill, < L. impUre, fill up : see 
implement.] In 7io\, having an- 
other tincture than its own laid 
over or covering the greater 
part: thus, a chief azure rempli 
or has a broad band of gold oc- 
cupying nearly the whole space 
of the chief, so that only a blue 
fimbriation shows around it. 
Also cousu. 
remplissage (rou-ple-sazh'), . 
Argent, a chief az- 
ure rempli or. 
[< F. remplissage, < rempliss-, stem of certain 
parts of remplir, fill up: see rempli."] That 
which serves only to fill up space ; filling; pad- 
ding: used specifically in literary and musical 
criticism. 
remuablet, [< OF. (and F.) remuable, change- 
able, < remuer, change: see remew.] Change- 
able; fickle; inconstant. 
And this may length of yeres nought fordo, 
Ne remuable fortune deface. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1682. 
remuet, v. t. See remew. 
remugientt (re-mu'ji-ent), a. [< L. remuai- 
e>i(t-)s, ppr. of remngir'e, bellow again, reecho, 
remutation 
resound, < re-, back, + mugire, bellow, low : see 
nut I/lent.] Rebellowing. 
Earthquakes accompanied with remuyient echoes, and 
ghastly murmurs from below. 
Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 63. 
remunert (re-mu'ner), r. t. [< OF. remunerer, 
F. remunerer = Sp. Pg. remitnerar = It. rimune- 
rare, < L. remuuemri, remuneran; reward, re- 
munerate: see remunerate.] To remunerate. 
Eschewe the evyll, or ellys thou shalt be deceyved atte 
last; and ever do wele, and atte last thou shal be remun- 
ered therfor. 
Lord Rivers, Dlctes and Sayings of the Philosophers, sig. 
[E. iii. b. (Latham.) 
remunerability (re-mu'ne-ra-bil'i-ti), . [< re- 
muncrablc + -ity (see -bility).'] The capacity of 
being remunerated or rewarded. 
The liberty and remunerability of human actions. 
Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, ii. 
remunerable (re-mu'ne-ra-bl), a. [= Sp. re- 
munerable; as remuner -t- -able.] Capable of 
being remunerated or rewarded; fit or proper 
to be recompensed. Bailey. 
remunerate (re-mu'ne-rat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
remunerated, ppr. remunerating. [< L. remu- 
nerates, pp. of remunerari, remuiierare, reward, 
remunerate, < re-, again, + munerari, munerare, 
give: see munerate. Cf. remuner.] To reward; 
recompense ; requite, in a good sense ; pay an 
equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or 
other sacrifice. 
She no doubt with royal favour will remunerate 
The least of your deserts. 
Webster and Dekker, Sir Thomas Wyatt, p. 13. 
The better hour is near 
That shall remunerate thy toils severe. 
Cowper, To Wm. Wilberforce, 1792. 
= Syn. Recompense, Compensate, etc. (see indemnify), re- 
pay. 
remuneration (re-mu-ne-ra'shon), n. [< OF. 
remuneracion, remuneration, F. remuneration = 
Pr. remuneration = Sp. remuneracion = Pg. re- 
muneraqSo = It. remuneration c, < L. remunera- 
tio(n-), a repaying, recompense, reward, < re- 
munerari, remunerate: see remunerate.] 1. 
The act of remunerating, or paying for services, 
loss, or sacrifices. 2. What is given to re- 
munerate; the equivalent given for services, 
loss, or sufferings. 
O, let not virtue seek 
Remuneration for the thing it was. 
Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 170. 
We have still in vails and Christmas-boxes to servants, 
&c., the remnants of a system under which fixed remu- 
neration was eked out by gratuities. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 375. 
= Syn. 1. Repayment, indemnification. 2. Reward, rec- 
ompense, compensation, payment. See indemnify. 
remunerative (re-mu'ne-ra-tiv), a. [= F. re- 
muneratif = Pg.' remunerative = It. rimunera- 
tivo; as remunerate + -ive.] 1. Affording re- 
muneration ; yielding a sufficient return : as, a 
remunerative occupation. 2. Exercised in re- 
warding ; remuueratory . 
Fit objects for remunerative justice to display itself 
upon. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 690. 
= Syn. 1. Profitable, paying. 
remuneratively (re-mu'ne-ra-tiv-li), adv. So 
as to remunerate; 'in a remunerative manner; 
so as to afford an equivalent for what has been 
expended, 
remunerativeness (re-mu'ne-ra-tiv-nes), n. 
The character of being remunerative. 
The question of remunerativeness seems to me quite of 
a secondary character. Elect. Rev. (Amer.), XV. ix. 6. 
remuneratory (re-mu'ne-ra-to-ri), a. [= F. re- 
muneratoire = Sp. Pg. It. remuneratorio; as re- 
munerate + -ory.] Affording recompense ; re- 
warding; requiting. 
Remuneratory honours are proportioned at once to the 
usefulness and difficulty of performances. 
Johnson, Rambler, No. 145. 
remurmur (re-mer'mer), v. [< L. remurmvrare, 
murmur back, < re-, back, + murmurare, mur- 
mur: see murmur, v.] I. intrans. To repeat 
or echo a murmuring or low rumbling sound. 
[Rare.] 
Swans remurmuriny to the floods, 
Or birds of different kinds in hollow woods. 
Dryden, .Kneiil, xi. 
II. trans. To utter back in murmurs; return 
in murmurs; repeat in low hoarse sounds. 
[Rare.] 
The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, 
Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. 
Pope, Winter, 1. 64. 
remutation (re-mu-ta'shon), . [< re- + mu- 
tation. Cf. remite, remew.] The act or process 
of changing back ; alteration to a previous forrr. 
or quality. [Rare.] 
