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1. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.Goldsmith. See the Note under Remove, Remove Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,Shak. The verb remove, in some of its application, 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. This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.Milton. And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.Goldsmith. It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.J. H. Newman. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.Addison. |
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