comm or set (komors)

[Formed on the model of remorse.] Compa ion; pity; sympathy. Yet doth calamity attract commorse . Daniel , Civil Wars, i. 46. commos (kom'os), n.; pl. commo i (-oi). [Gr. κομμός, a lamenting song, a beating of the breast in lamentation, orig. a striking, κόπτειν , strike. commos Cf. comma, of same ult. origin.] In anc. Gr. tragedy, a song or choric pa age sung by an actor from the stage in alternation with the chorus, and expre ive of sorrow or lamentation. com motel (ko-mōt'), v. t.; pret. and pp. com moted, ppr. commot ing. [L. commot us, pp. of commovere, move, disturb: see commove, commotion.] To commove; disturb; stir up; throw into commotion. [Rare.] It was incidental to the closene of relationship into which we had brought ourselves, that an unfriendly state of feeling could not occur between any two members [of the Brook Farm Community] without the whole society being more or le commoted and made uncomfortable thereby. Hawthorne , Blithe dale Romance, p. 165. commote2t, commott, n. [ Commotes seemeth to be compounded of the preposition con and mot , 1, verbum , dictio , a word or saying, and sign if i eth in Wales a part of a shire, as a hundred anno 28 H. 8 cap. 3. It is written commo it hes , anno 4 H. 4 cap. 17, and is vsed for a gathering made vpon the people (as it seemeth) of this or that hundred, by Welsh men. Minsheu (1617).