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Movent - What does it mean?

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movent

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (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

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) 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.
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