meve

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Middle English

Verb

meve

  1. move
    • 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde,
      The sharpe shoures felle of armes preve,
      That Ector or his othere bretheren diden,
      Ne made him only ther-fore ones meve;
      And yet was he, wher-so men wente or riden,
      Founde oon the beste, and lengest tyme abiden
      Ther peril was, and dide eek such travayle
      In armes, that to thenke it was mervayle.