in armoury, a short sentence or phrase, carried in a scroll, generally under, but sometimes over, the arms: sometimes alluding to the bearing, sometimes to the name of the bearer, and sometimes containing whatever pleases the fancy of the deviser. MOVEABLE, in general, denotes anything capable of being moved.

MOVEABLE Feasts, are such as are not always held on the same day of the year or month; though they be on the same day of the week. See FEASTS.

Thus, Easter is a moveable feast, being always held on the Sunday which falls upon or next after the first full moon following the 21st of March.

All the other moveable feasts follow Easter, i.e. they keep their distance from it: so that they are fixed with respect thereto.

Such are Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Ash Wednesday, Ascension day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, &c., which see under their proper articles, SEPTUAGESIMA, &c.

MOVEABLE Subject, in Law, any thing that moves itself, or can be moved; in contradistinction to immoveable or heritable subjects, as lands, houses, &c.