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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.
Definition 2025
commove
commove
English
Verb
commove (third-person singular simple present commoves, present participle commoving, simple past and past participle commoved)
- 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!"
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque: