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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of move.

Etymologies

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move + -eth

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Examples

  • The word "moveth" has the same meaning as when a resolution is moved at a meeting.

    The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

  • The dominant religion in America promotes the view that man is to "... have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

    The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison 2009

  • The dominant religion in America promotes the view that man is to "... have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

    The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison 2009

  • Pat Robertson would ride a steel bike, if he didn't find that bible passage in the New Testament, the the letter to the Corinthians makers of Chrysler interiors: "yea, ye shall moveth upon large steel wheels driven by the power of dead lizards, which exist, not."

    Fully Loaded: Excessive Packaging BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • ‘And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • ‘And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • And he God said: Let us make man to our image and likeness:and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Bill Powell 2009

  • Ofelli themselves; whether the rapid pace at which the fancy moveth in such exercitations, where the wish of the penman is to him like Prince

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • For on every hand are shoals, on every hand masses of seaweed from the depths; and over them the light foam of the wave washes without noise; and there is a stretch of sand to the dim horizon; and there moveth nothing that creeps or flies.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • “I waive my claim to thy blood and I pardon thee the blood of my comrades: so take what thou wilt of the cattle and wend thy ways, for thy firmness in fight moveth my ruth and life is better for thee than death.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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