movement

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOVEMENT, noun Motion; a passing, progression, shaking, turning or flowing; any change of position in a material body; as the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine. 1. The manner of moving. 2. Excitement; agitation; as the movement of the mind. 3. In music, any single strain or part having the same measure or time. Any change of time is a change of movement
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