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Movable

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The first movable. Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici, p. 56, 27) uses the phrase, “Beyond the first movable,” meaning outside the material creation. According to Ptolemy the “primum mobile” (the first movable and first mover of all things) was the boundary of creation, above which came the empyrean heaven, or seat of God.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mournival
Mouse
Mouse, Mousie
Mouse Tower (The)
Moussa
Moussali
Mouth
Mouth Waters
Moutons
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Moving the Adjournment of the House
Moving the Previous Question
Moving the World
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Mowis
Mozaide
Much or Mudge
Much Ado about Nothing
Muciana Cautio
Mucklebackit