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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

"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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference

Which, sire, is matier that must nedes commove and stire the hartes of al good christen princes and people to helpe and put their handes with effecte to reformacion thereof, and the repressing of such tirannous demenour. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09] Reference