MOV 
Mis heart I know, how variable and vain 
Self-left. Milton's Paradife Loft. 
To propofe; to recommend.—They are to be blamed 
alike, who move and who decline war upon particular 
refpefts. Hayward's Edw. VI. —To perfuade ; to prevail 
on ; to difpofe by fomething determining the choice.—• 
Sometimes the poffibility of preferment prevailing with 
the credulous, expectation of lefs expence with the co¬ 
vetous, opinion of eafe with the fond, and afluranee of 
remotenefs with the unkind parents, have moved them, 
without diferetion, to engage their children in adven¬ 
tures of learning, by whofe return they have received 
but final! contentment. Wotton. 
What can thy mind to this long journey move? 
Or need’ll thou abfence to renew thy love ? Dryden. 
To affeft; to touch pathetically ; to Itir pafiion.—Images 
are very fparingly to be introduced ; their proper place is 
in poems and orations, and their ufe is to move pity or 
terrour, compallion, and refentment. Felton on the ClaJJicks. 
O let thy lifter, daughter, handmaid, move; 
Or all thofe tender names in one, thy love. Pope. 
To make angry: 
Throw your diftemper’d weapons to the ground 
And hear the l’entence of your moved prince. Shakeftpeare. 
To put into commotion.—When they were come to Beth¬ 
lehem, all the city was moved about them. Rath, i. 19.— 
To incite ; to produce by incitement: 
Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move 
Harmonious numbers. Milton's ParadiJ'e Loft. 
To conduCt regularly in motion: 
They, as they move 
Their (tarry dance in numbers that compute 
Days, months, and years, tow’rds his all-cheering lamp, 
Turn lwift their various motions. Milton's ParadiJ'e Loft. 
To MOVE, v. n. To be in a ftate of changing place ; 
not to be at reft.—The fenles reprefent the earth as im¬ 
movable ; for, though it do move in itfelf, it refts to us who 
are carried with it. Glanville. 
Whether heaven move or earth 
Imports not, if thou reckon right. Milton's Paradife Loft. 
To have a particular direction of palfage: 
The fun 
Had firft his precept fo to move, fo lliine, 
As might aft'eCt the earth with cold and heat. Milton's P. L. 
To go from one place to another.—Any thing that tnoves 
round about in a circle in lefs time than our ideas are wont 
to fucceed one another in our minds, is not perceived to 
move, but feems to be a perfeCt entire circle of that mat¬ 
ter. Locke. 
On the green bank I fat and liften’d long, 
Nor till her lay was ended could I move. 
But wilh’d to dwell for ever in the grove. Dryden. 
To have vital aftion.—In him we live, move, and have 
our being. Adis, xvii. 28.—Every moving- thing that liveth 
lliall be meat for you. Gen. —To walk ; to bear the body: 
See great Marcellus ! how inur’d in toils 
He moves with manly grace, how rich with regal fpoils. 
Dryden. 
To march as an army: 
Anon they move 
In perfeCl phalanx to the Dorian mood. Milton's P. L. 
To go forward: 
Through various hazards and events we move 
To Latium. , Dryden's 1 En. 
To change the pofture of the body in ceremony.—When 
Haman law Mordecai that he flood not up, nor moved for 
him, he was full of indignation. Ejih. v. 9. 
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MOVE, f. The aft of moving, commonly ufed at chefs: 
With man alas no otherwife it proves; 
An unfeen hand makes all their moves. Cowley. 
MO'VELESS, adj. Unmoved ; not to be put out of the 
place.—The lungs, though untouched, will remain move- 
lefts as to any expanlion or contraction of their fubftance. 
Doyle. 
The Grecian phalanx, movelefts as a tow’r, 
On all lides batter’d, yet relifts his povv’r. Pope's Iliad. 
MOVEMENT,/ Manner of moving.—Under-work¬ 
men are expert enough at making a Angle wheel in a clock, 
but are utterly ignorant how to adjult the leveral parts, 
or regulate the movement. Swftt. —Motion : 
Could he, whofe laws the rolling planets bind, 
Del’cribe or fix one movement of the mind. Pope. 
MOVENT, adj. Moving.—If it be in feme part movent, 
and in fiome part quiefeent, it muft needs be a curve line, 
and fo no radius. Grew's CoJ'mol. Sacra. 
MOVENT, J\ That which moves another.—That there 
is-a motion which makes the viciflitudes of day and night, 
fenfe may allures us ; but whether the fun or earth be the 
common movent, cannot be determined but by a further 
appeal. Glanville's Scepjis. 
MOVER, f. The perlon or thing that gives motion.— 
The llrength of a lpring were better affifted by the labour 
of lome intelligent mover, as the heavenly orbs are fiup- 
poled to be turned. Wilkins's Math. Magick. 
O thou eternal mover of the heavens, 
Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch. Shakeftpeare. 
Something that moves, or Hands not Hill: 
So orbs from the firft mover motion take, 
Yet each their proper revolutions make. Dryden. 
A propofer.—If any quellion be moved concerning the 
doftrine of the church of England exprelfed in the thirty- 
nine articles, give not the leaft ear to the movers thereof. 
Bacon. 
See here thefe movers, that do prize their honours 
At a crack’d drachm ; culhions, leaden fpoons, 
Ere yet the fight be done, pack up. Shakeftpeare. 
MOU'FET, or Muf'fet (Thomas), a phyfician and 
naturalift of the fixteenth century, was born in London, 
and received his early education in that metropolis. He 
was then fent to Cambridge, and fubfequently proceeded 
on his travels, which he prolecuted through leveral of the 
countries of Europe, where he contrafted an acquaint¬ 
ance with many of the molt eminent foreign p’hyficians 
and chemifts. Before his return he.had taken the degree 
of M.D. and he lettled in London, where he praftifed 
phylic with conliderable reputation. It appears alfo, that 
he relided for lome time at Iplwich. He was particularly 
patronized by Peregrine Bertie, lord Willoughby; and 
accompanied him on his embalfy, to carry the enligns of 
the order of the garter to the king of Denmark. He 
likewife was in the camp with the earl of Eftex in Nor¬ 
mandy, probably in 1591. He Ipent much of the latter 
part of his life at Bulbridge near Wilton, as a retainer to 
the Pembroke family, from which he received an annual 
penlion. He died in that retirement, about the end of 
queen Elizabeth’s reign. 
Dr. Moufet was a writer of conliderable diftinftion in 
his day, and appears to have been among the firft phy- 
licians who introduced chemical medicines into praftice 
in England. He publiihed in 1584, at Franklort, an 
apology for the chemical left, which was then beginning 
to prevail in Germany, though much oppoled by the 
adherents of the Ichool of the ancients: it was entitled 
“ De Jure et Prseftantia Chemicorum Medicamentorum, 
Diajogus Apologeticus.” The work difplays a good deal 
of learning and (kill in argumentation. This traft was 
republilhed in the Theatrum Chemicum, in 1602, with 
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