commove

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The Word of the Day for November 11 is: 

commove   \kuh-MOOV\   verb
         *1 : to move violently : agitate 
     2 : to rouse intense feeling in : excite to passion 

Example sentence:
          “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.” (R.L. Stevenson, 
_The Silverado Squatters_)

Did you know?
          Eighteenth-century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson declared 
“commove” as being “not in use,” but the word had not really disappeared from 
the language; it was simply, at that time, popular primarily with Scottish 
writers. The 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with the first use 
of “commove,” and many writers since have used the word, including Sir Walter 
Scott and George Eliot. Though not so common today, “commove” does occasionally 
pop up (to the chagrin of Johnsonians). “Market values tend to commove over 
time,” read one such recent example, which appeared in the February 2007 issue 
of _The Journal of Banking and Finance_.





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