Commote
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Commote is a noun meaning A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales.
Meaning
A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, rare) To disturb or agitate, to disrupt also in the positive sense, to put into (more) commotion, to stir up, to add to the activity of.
Example Sentences
Some cantrefi might comprise more than two commotes, for example, and the complement of townships would vary from commote to commote, determined by considerations other than mathematical symmetry.
It is to commote patriotism and to commote life that our Barries, Maclarens, Hardies, and Caines must go for inspiration to revivify a people growing prematurely old in a vain attempt to make the world "Anglo-Saxon."
It was incidental to the closeness of relationship into which we had brought ourselves that an unfriendly state of feeling could not occur between any two members without the whole society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable thereby.
Word Forms
- commotes
- commot
- commoting
- commoted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cwmwd, cantref, trefgordd, combe, community, shiremoot.
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