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Definitions for: Movable [adj] capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
[adj] (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
Webster (1913) Definition: Mov"a*ble, a. [Cf. OF. movable. See Move.]
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or
conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture;
susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a
movable steam engine.
2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.
e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year
to year.
Movable letter (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced,
as opposed to one that is quiescent.
Mov"a*ble, n.; pl. Movables.
1. An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of
property not fixed, or not a part of real estate;
generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
--Evelyn.
2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
Note: The word is not convertible with personal property,
since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are
personal property by our law are immovables by the
Roman law. --Wharton.
Synonyms: mobile, moveable, portable, transferable, transferrable, transportable
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