com motive (komotiv)

[= It. commotivo, The Seas commotiue and inconstant flowing, Thus curbed her. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. commove (ko-möv'), v. t.; pret. and pp. commoved, ppr. commoving. [ comm even = OF. commuver , F. commouvoir = Sp. conmover = Pg.comm over = It.commuovere , com movere , commovere , move, displace, agitate, disturb, com- , together, + movere , move: see move.] To put in motion; disturb; agitate; unsettle; throw into commotion. [Rare.] He who has seen the sea commoved with a great hurricane thinks of it very differently from him who has seen it only in a calm. The Century, XXVII. 189.