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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English amoven, ameven, from Old French amover.
Verb
amove (third-person singular simple present amoves, present participle amoving, simple past and past participle amoved)
- (obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
Etymology 2
From Latin amovere.
Verb
amove (third-person singular simple present amoves, present participle amoving, simple past and past participle amoved)
- To remove (a person or thing) from a position.
1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: J Flesher, for William Morden , →OCLC:Hence claws, horns, hoofs they use the pinching ill t' amove
1336 April 5, Calendar of the Charter Rolls, 10 Edward III, 1333-1337, published 1898, Membrane 36, pages 560-1.:The Tower. To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to Thomas Tracy in that bailiwick, restoring the issues thereof, and to inform the king if there is any reason why he should not do this, as it was lately found by inquisition taken by Walter de Hungerford, then escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex that Thomas held no lands at his death of the king in chief, and the king ordered Walter not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to Thomas in that bailiwick, restoring the issues thereof, and Walter was amoved from his office before he had executed the order.
- (law) To dismiss from an office or station.
Derived terms
Latin
Verb
āmovē
- second-person singular present active imperative of āmoveō