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To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. [What] commotion in the winds! Shak.

Same as Pantheism. [R.]

ssuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic ide…

To reduce to a lower grade, as in school.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Encho…

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.

A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

The eelpout.

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects. Electro-motive force (Physics), the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent…

An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.

fic exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.

To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

Affected with emotion. [R.] "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv.