Obs. [f. as prec. + -ER.] One who excites or takes part in a commotion; one who stirs up tumult or rebellion.
1549. Cheke, Hurt Sedit. (1641), 13. Who can perswade where treason is aboue reason, and … commotioners are better than commissioners, and common woe is named commonwealth?
1550. Crowley, Epigr., 555. The Swerde wyl not helpe in the common wealth, To purge it of Commotionars [l. 595. has commosioners].
c. 1577. in Hist. Acc. Voyages round World, I. 68. Thomas Doughty, who is a commotioner and a seditious fellow, and a very bad and lewd fellow, and one that I have made that reckoning of as of my left hand.
1616. Bolton, Hypercr., in Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840), III. 231. Sir Thomas Wiat, not the dangerous commotioner, but his worthy father.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 50. Lord Cobham … being a Commotioner in the reign of Qu. Mary.
