Meaning of amove | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
   obsolete
2. To remove.
   obsolete
3. To dismiss from an office or station.
   archaic, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Vp-rose Duessa from her resting place, / And to the Paynims lodging comes with silent pace […] And him amoues with speaches seeming fit […]”

“Hence claws, horns, hoofs they use the pinching ill t' amove”

“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.”

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