commove
English
Etymology
From Middle English commoeven
Verb
commove (third-person singular simple present commoves, present participle commoving, simple past and past participle commoved)
- (dated, transitive) 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:
Related terms
- commotion
Latin
Verb
commovē
- second-person singular present active imperative of commoveō