Dictionary entry

Commove

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐move″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Commoved (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Commoving.] [L. commovere, commotum; com- + movere to move.] 1. To urge; to persuade; to incite. Chaucer.

2. To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.

Straight the sands,

Commoved around, in gathering eddies play.

Thomson.