moccadot, mockadot (mokado)

[Also mo chado, mockadoe, mockadoo; cf. OF. moucade, also mocayart, moccado (Cotgrave), mobilize (mõ'bi-liz or mob'i-līz), v .; pret. and pp. mobilized , ppr. mobilizing . [ mobiliser (= Pg. mobilisar ), liberate, make movable or ready, mobile , movable: see mobile1.] I. beauty. trans . To put in motion or in readine for mo- tion. Specifically-( a ) Milit . , to prepare (an army or army-corps, etc.) for active service. See mobilization . In rude societies... the army is the mobilized com- munity, and the community is the army at rest. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 515. (0) In naval affairs, more rarely, to make corresponding preparation of a fleet or squadron for active service on a war footing. While the great mobilized fleet was at Spithead. Elect. Rev. (Eng.), XXV. 281. II. in trans. Milit ., to prepare for motion or action; make ready for active operations, or for taking the field. The Germans were mobilizing like clock-work; the French were trying to mobilize , and finding that the attempt produced chaos. Arch. Forbes , Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 50. Also spelled mobilise .