Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a movable manner or state; so as to be capable of movement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a movable manner or condition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb So as to make
movable .
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Examples
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A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface.
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Due to its heat expansion, roof sheets and gutter elements must be movably placed.
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(The component parts of the joint are movably or swivably connected with one another.) 8.
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The footplate of the stirrup which serves as the innermost link of the ossicle chain is movably mounted in the opening of the oval window of the inner ear which faces the middle ear.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 - Presentation Speech 1964
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And therefore as creatures are established in their proper species, though movably, by the participation of this likeness, so by the non-participated and personal union of the Word with a creature, it was fitting that the creature should be restored in order to its eternal and unchangeable perfection; for the craftsman by the intelligible form of his art, whereby he fashioned his handiwork, restores it when it has fallen into ruin.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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And so it seems that Christ is in this sacrament movably.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Objection 1: It seems that Christ's body is movably in this sacrament, because the Philosopher says (Topic. ii) that "when we are moved, the things within us are moved": and this is true even of the soul's spiritual substance.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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(RAMI) of the lower jaw are not solidly united at the chin, but movably connected by an elastic ligament.
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A seat had been removed from the surrey, its place taken by a large box with a square opening, covered with heavy wire net at one end, and a board fitted movably in grooves at the other.
Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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The rudder, or helm, is a small piece of timber extending along the back of the stern-post, and hung movably upon it by means of what may be called large iron hooks-and-eyes.
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859
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