“ A disorderly crowd, a rabble, also a contemptuous name for the common people, the lower orders, the Greek ὄχλος, (whence “ochlocracy,” mob-rule) . The word is a shortened form of Lat. mobile (sc. vulgus) , the movable or mutable emotional, easily stirred crowd. “Mobile” in the sense of rabble was used in the 17th century, and was still used after the shortened form, for some time considered a vulgarism, had become common. Thus Addison (Spectator, No. 135) writes, “It is perhaps this humour of speaking no more than we needs must which has so miserably curtailed some of our words. ”