Remove | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Re-mŏve', v. t.

verbtransitive

(re-mōōv'), v. t. [imp. & p. p. REMOVED; p. pr. & vb. n. REMOVING.] [Lat. removere, from re, again, back, and movere, to move; It. rimuovere, Sp. & Pg. remover, Pr. remover, remoure, O. Fr. removoir, remouvoir.]

Sense 1. To cause to change place; to move away from the position occupied; to displace; as, to remove a building.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14.

When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally had the table removed. Goldsmith.

Sense 2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy.

It was beyond the power of medicine to remove the disease. Macaulay.

Sense 3. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.

Re-mōve',, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one position or place to another.

Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane I can not tint with fear. Shak.

The verb remove, in some of its applications, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

Re-move', n.

noun

n. 1. The act of removing; a removal.

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. Milton.

Sense 2. The state of being removed. Locke.

Sense 3. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make way for something else.

Sense 4. The distance or space through which any thing is removed; interval; distance; remoteness. “Capable . . . of but a very small remove.” Rogers.

Sense 5. A step in any scale of gradation.

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.

Sense 6. The act of putting a horse’s shoes on different feet. Swift.