movent

1. obsoleteMoving; that moves; that is being moved.

   It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.

   1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2

plural movents

1. archaicAnything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.

   I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.

   1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, 3.15.155

2. alternativelawAlternative form of movant.