Definition of "commove" [com•move]

• To cause to move with force or violence; agitate; disturb. (verb-transitive)
• To rouse strong feelings in; excite. (verb-transitive)

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• "If culture thrives under them — a very doubtful position — it is not because voters wish to understand the historical allusions of candidates, but because the general stir and life of public activity tends to commove the whole system."
• ""It might commove Europe and bespatter it with blood, but that would not hinder it from plunging itself into nothingness in the abysmal ooze of definite dissolution.""
• "Satan is called the prince of the air, and the god of this world, for he hath more efficacy and virtue to commove the air, and raise tempests than all the swarms of multiplied mankind, though gathered into one army."