remove

To delete.

To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

He removed the marbles from the bag.

Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue ſett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enheretteſt in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it.

To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

To murder.

To dismiss a batsman.

The act of removing something.

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.

And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.

A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.

An attempt at entrées and removes failed at the first dinner-party.

(at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

That vve may underſtand the full extent of theſe relations, vve must conſider, that tvvo objects are connected together in the imagination, not only vvhen the one is immediately reſembling, contiguous to, or the cauſe of the other, but alſo vvhen there is interpoſed betwixt them a third object, vvhich bears to both of them any of theſe relations. This may be carried on to a great length; tho' at the ſame time vve may obſerve, that each remove conſiderably vveakens the relation.

Distance in time or space; interval.

How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]