removev. t.[OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.]1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.()Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. (Deut. xix. 14.)When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. (Goldsmith.)2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.(Shak.)3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.()()v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.()Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I can not taint with fear. (Shak.)()n.1. The act of removing; a removal.()This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. (Milton.)And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. (Goldsmith.)2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.()It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. (J. H. Newman.)3. The state of being removed.(Locke.)4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.()5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.()A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. (Addison.)6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.(Swift.)