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Webster 1913 Edition


Commove

Com-move′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Commoved
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Commoving
.]
[L.
commovere
,
commotum
;
com-
+
movere
to move.]
1.
To urge; to persuade; to incite.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.
[R.]
Straight the sands,
Commoved
around, in gathering eddies play.
Thomson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Commove

COMMOVE

,
Verb.
T.
To put in motion; to disturb; to agitate; to unsettle; a poetic word.

Definition 2024


commove

commove

English

Verb

commove (third-person singular simple present commoves, present participle commoving, simple past and past participle commoved)

  1. To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
      Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: "Learning, quotha!" said he; "I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!"

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Latin

Verb

commovē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of commoveō