self-moving

[ self-moo-ving, self- ]

/ ˌsɛlfˈmu vɪŋ, ˈsɛlf- /

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adjective

capable of moving without an external agency.

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Origin of self-moving

First recorded in 1575–85

OTHER WORDS FROM self-moving

self-movement, nounself-mover, noun

Words nearby self-moving

self-mate, self-medication, self-mortification, self-motivated, self-motivation, self-moving, self-mutilation, selfness, self-operating, self-opinion, self-opinionated

How to use self-moving in a sentence

If it were not so, why does one call a horseless carriage 'automobile' instead of 'self-moving carriage'?
A Fantasy of Far Japan|Baron Kencho Suyematsu
His water-clock, self-moving vehicle, and mill, were the wonder of the village; the latter propelled by a living mouse.
The Uses of Astronomy|Edward Everett
It was also for Plato the self-moving and the cause of all motion.
Creative Intelligence|John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
The world consists of a finite number of atoms, which have in their own nature a self-moving force or principle.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1|Various

But if this be true, must not the soul be the self-moving, and therefore of necessity unbegotten and immortal?
Phaedrus|Plato