KJV Dictionary Definition: removability

removability

REMOVABIL'ITY, n. The capacity of being removable from an office or station; capacity of being displaced.

removable

REMOVABLE, a. from remove.

1. That may be removed from an office or station.

Such curate is removable at the pleasure of the rector of the mother church.

2. That may be removed from one place to another.

removal

REMOVAL, n.

1. The act of moving from one place to another for residence; as the removal of a family.

2. The act of displacing from an office or post.

3. The act of curing or putting away; as the removal of a disease.

4. The state of being removed; change of place.

5. The act of putting an end to; as the removal of a grievance.

remove

REMOVE, v.t. L. removeo; re and moveo, to move.

1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. 19.

2. To displace from an office.

3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.

Remove sorrow from thine heart. Eccles. 11.

4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.

5. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.

REMOVE, v.i.

1. To change place in any manner.

2. To go from one place to another.

3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.

REMOVE, n.

1. Change of place.

2. Translation of one to the place of another.

3. State of being removed.

4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.

5. Departure; a going away.

6. The act of changing place; removal.

7. A step in any scale of gradation.

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove.

9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.

10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.

11. Susceptibility of being removed. Not in use.

removed

REMOVED, pp.

1. Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.

2. a. Remote; separate from others.

remover

REMOVER, n. One that removes; as a remover of landmarks.

removing

REMOVING, ppr. changing place; carrying or going from one place to another; displacing; banishing.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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