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Not moved; fixed; firm; unshaken; calm; apathetic. -- Un*mov"ed*ly, adv.

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

ting, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor. (Astr. & Physics.)…

To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.

Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow mi…

A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

A plane or arched surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

ression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

ngs xvi. 11. Against the sun, in a direction contrary to that in which the sun appears to move.

Tending to aggravate. Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.