What's the difference between commote and mediaeval?

Commote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To commove; to disturb; to stir up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Actinic commotion at the surface of the body is often massive in degree and extent and may be expected to exert a deleterious autoimmune impact on the essential elastic tissues of the arterial system.
  • (2) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
  • (3) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
  • (4) In the commotion that followed Xiros's escape, Alexandros Giotopoulos, the French-born academic believed to have founded the gang, and Dimitris Koufondinas, its chief hitman, have declared, in letters written from prison, that "17 November is dead".
  • (5) That was where Tree was dancing in the early hours of 28 June 1969, when he heard and saw a commotion through the archway.
  • (6) When Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a " selfie " on her smartphone last week, like millions of people do every day, she doubtless had little idea of the commotion that would ensue.
  • (7) My neighbours (poor things) do not listen to The Archers or they would have known that the commotion they heard was my response to evidence being given by Kirsty Miller at the trial of Helen Titchener.
  • (8) If they had, there would have been too much commotion.
  • (9) The incident does not bode well – even if this is not the first time a Golden Dawn MP has caused commotion in the House.
  • (10) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
  • (11) But Victoria Square, named after Britain’s long-reigning monarch, has also come to represent something else: a fear of the chaos and commotion that the stranded migrants have brought with them.
  • (12) Someone was angry enough to drive a cement mixer into the gates of the country's parliament yesterday, but there was much more commotion earlier this month when Tony Blair – an ex-prime minister of a foreign country – came to town .
  • (13) That was the poachers’ luck.” In the commotion and darkness, the villains made their escape.
  • (14) Look, Richard says, they never set out to cause a commotion.
  • (15) In patients with brain commotion in the first week after trauma only 24-hours EEG revealed changes.
  • (16) Suzy Mitchell, 26, said she heard the commotion from her bedroom at the back of an apartment block opposite the venue: “Everyone was running away in big crowds.” Police were alerted to the explosion at 10.33pm.
  • (17) According to ABC News , the suicidal woman was on the edge of a balcony and threatened to jump when the three men heard the commotion and rushed into the building to rescue her.
  • (18) When gay radiologist Jorg Thieme had the temerity to kiss his male partner there, a scandalised Canary Wharf security guard intervened to prevent "a commotion".
  • (19) Some sudden movement attracted her attention, a commotion, and she could see Lawrence on the ground, a group of men surrounding him and kicking, holding him down, she remembers.
  • (20) Cool-headed, as if oblivious to the commotion around her, she was earnestly engaged in formulating a policy phrase that would distinguish government borrowing (for a fiscal stimulus to get us out of the financial crisis) from personal borrowing (of the sort which got us into it).

Mediaeval


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first, or maybe, occurrence of the word "melancholia" is found in a French mediaeval book "Knight Yvain" (12th century).
  • (2) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
  • (3) Dental caries prevalence, distribution and site of attack were in broad agreement with previous reports for Mediaeval Scots, namely that caries was principally a disease of adult life and showed a different location distribution from that of modern caries.
  • (4) A group of 19 adult skulls from mediaeval Poland were chosen for this study.
  • (5) Now she goes to karate with Franklin, "a long-haired boy, who's obsessed with mediaeval weaponry and all that kind of stuff," and shares the parenting responsibilities equally with Vee.
  • (6) Henricues Regius (1598--1679), professor at the University of Utrecht was the first physician who accepted the physiology of the philosopher Descartes (1596--1750) that he exposed in Fundamenta physices (1646) and in Fundamenta Medicinae (1647) but in Praxis Medica (1657) his therapy of the "odontalgia" is still mediaeval according to the principles of Galen.
  • (7) Dental caries prevalence, distribution, and site of attack was investigated in a Scottish Mediaeval population.
  • (8) The rich archival sources of mediaeval Vaudois institutions make it possible to study a great variety of health problems of that country.
  • (9) In an article in an earlier edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics (1) Dr Iglesias bases her analysis upon the mediaeval interpretation of Platonic metaphysics and Aristotelian logic as given by Aquinas.
  • (10) He added: “Islamic State has a simple but deadly message, submit or die; to most, a mediaeval fantasy, but rational enough to many Muslims based on their scriptures.” The remarks followed a television interview on Tuesday and a newspaper column on Wednesday in which Abbott called for a reformation within Islam and argued that not all cultures were equal.
  • (11) For better understanding of this rather casuistic contribution to the medicine of the High Middle Ages some principles of mediaeval medicine are explained.
  • (12) We present the results of a study on a small number of bones from a mediaeval and a 17th-century cemetery in Abingdon showing the relation between gross preservation, microscopic preservation and DNA recovery.
  • (13) A paper published last week by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) compares the City to a mediaeval Italian city-state – an economy within the economy.
  • (14) Islamic State has a simple but deadly message, submit or die; to most, a mediaeval fantasy, but rational enough to many Muslims based on their scriptures,” Abbott said.
  • (15) Some of the best classical music of recent decades has come from the "authentic" or "historically informed" movement: through conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who employ original instruments and locations in baroque music, and using counter-tenors to sing castrati parts in mediaeval church compositions.
  • (16) Extracts of bone from the English Civil War (A.D. 1644), Mediaeval (A.D. 1100-1400), Early Saxon (A.D. 450-600), Roman (A.D. 100-200), Iron Age (ca 400 B.C.)

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