Obs.; also 4–5 amoeve, 4–6 ameve, 6 amoove. [a. OFr. amov-er, amouv-oir, accented stem ameuv-:—L. admovē-re to move to, excite to, f. ad to + movē-re to move. App. confounded to some extent with OFr. esmover, mod.Fr. émouvoir:—L. exmovēre.]

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  1.  To set in motion, stir, stir up, excite (any action, a person to action, the heart, the blood, etc.).

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c. 1330.  Sir Otuel (1836), 33. Suiche tydings thei herden, That á-moeuede al here blod.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xxxiii. 118. He walde amowe were in Frawns.

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1541.  Paynell, Catiline, lii. 75 b. The commons were excedingly amoued agaynst the Senatours.

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c. 1590.  Greene, Poems, 136. At all these cries my heart was sore amoved.

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  2.  esp. To move the feelings of (a person), to move inwardly, cause emotion to. (Fr. émouvoir.)

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  a.  trans. (usually pass.)

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., I. i. 6. Sche was a lytel ameued and glowed wiþ cruel eyen.

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1494.  Fabyan, II. xlviii. 32. When the knowlege of ye deth of Irreglas was brought into the kynge, he was therwith greatly amoued.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IX. iii. 40. How art thou thus agane the fatis amouit?

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 45. She … him amoves with speaches seeming fit.

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  b.  refl.

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1530.  Palsgr., 425/2. Kepe your pacyence and amove you not.

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  c.  intr.

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c. 1280.  Signs bef. Judg., in E. E. P. (1862), 11. Þer nis no seint in heuen abow … Þat þer of ne sal amoue.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Clerkes T., 442. Whan she had herd al this she noght ameued [v.r. amoued] Neyther in word, in cheer, or countenaunce.

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  3.  trans. To arouse (from sleep, etc.).

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1595.  Spenser, Daphnaida, 545. I, stepping to him light, Amooved him out of his stonie swound.

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