Excerpt from "letter to his son" by robert e. lee
then there arose an old puritan legislator, davenport of stamford, and said that if the last day had come he desired to be found in his place doing his duty and therefore moved that candles be brought in, so that the house could proceed with its duty.
read the dictionary entry.
move v. 1. to cause to go 2. to change residence 3. to change position 4. to make a proposal
it could be inferred that the word moved in the letter means "put up for a vote."
which dictionary definition confirms this inference?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

D. 4.

Explanation:

Based on the passage given in the question, it could be inferred that the word "move" could only mean "to make a proposal". This is for the fact that if supposing we use option (A) to be the meaning of the word "move" in the sentence, then it's contradicting itself. For, the sentence will mean something like "to cause to go the candles to be bought in" which turns out so absurd.

Likewise, options (B) and (C) are also not the right connotations for they will mean the changing of residence or position of the candles to be brought in. These sentences makes no sense, thus making them invalid. So, the right connotation for the word "move' in relation to the whole passage will be option (D), to make a proposal.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

my best guess would be: d allusion

makes the most sense