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noun

Mover n.

A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.

A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.

One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. "These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death."

A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

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Etymology of 'Mover'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mover" Quotes from Famous Books

... their proceedings, the three representatives of the chaotic deep, Tiawath, Apsu, and Mummu, discussed how they might get rid the beings who wished to rise to higher things. Mummu was apparently the prime mover in the plot, and the face of Apsu grew bright at the thought of the evil plan which they had devised against "the gods their sons." The inscription being very mutilated here, its full drift cannot be gathered, but from the complete ...

— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Theophilus G. Pinches

... power or force rather than a fact. 'A God who has nothing to become has nothing to do.' God is not the idea of ideas, but the being of beings and the life of our life. He is not a supreme notion, but a supreme life and an immanent action. He is not the 'unmoved mover,' but He is in the movement itself as its principle and end. While the Greeks conceived the world sub specie aeternitatis, God is conceived by modern thought sub specie temporis. God's eternity is not a sort of arrested time in which there is no more ...

— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

... had bouche son passage. When he was upon the throne the Chancellor was at his right hand, and looking with such a countenance as affords to the people of Brooks's much occasion of abuse. Arnold(208) was behind the throne. The King looked much displeased with Mr. Conway, the mover, at the ...

— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... rejoiced that they might entertain this very probable expectation; and they congratulated the Academy especially for having prepared this great work, and for having been the rallying point, the centre, and the prime mover of the liberty ...

— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita

... depth, incomprehensible extension and eternal duration; dark silence and wild waste; repose of all the saints in unity and joy in itself and in all the saints in eternity. This enlightened man will also examine the attributes of the Father in the Godhead, how He is all-powerful, the creator, mover, preserver, beginning and end, cause and existence of all creatures; this is what the bright river of grace shows to the enlightened reason. It shows also the attributes of the eternal Word, abysmal ...

— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge

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