movent

English

Adjective

movent

1. (obsolete) Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:

     It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.

Noun

movent (plural movents)

1. (archaic) Anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.
   • 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, 3.15.155:

     I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.

2. (law) Alternative form of movant.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “movent”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Catalan

Verb

movent

1. gerund of moure

Latin

Verb

movent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of moveō