The office or rank of a commander.

Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.

In a commanding manner.

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

A woman invested with authority to command.

See Commandery.

The frontier of a country; confines.

Consisting of the same material.

Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.

Conciseness in writing.

Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional.

To be commensurate with; to equal.

Worthy to be commemorated.

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July.

of or pertaining to a commemoration; serving to commemorate.

The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.

something that commemorates, especially a postage stamp or coin having a design commemorating some event, person, institution, etc.

One who commemorates.

Serving to commemorate; commemorative.

To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

Commendation; praise.

Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy.

A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.

One who holds a living in commendam.

The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.

One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.

A commendation; eulogy.

One who commends or praises.

Having the character of a commensal.

The act of eating together; table fellowship.

Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table.

Commensality.

The quality of being commensurable.

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.

The state or quality of being commensurate.

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.

To add symbols in the code of a computer program to convert (one or more lines of programming statements) from executable instructions to comments; used to make program statements inoperable without removing them permanently, such as for temporary testing of alternative methods or to leave the original lines in as explanatory comments.

A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries.

The office or occupation of a commentator.

One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.

Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion.

To carry on trade; to traffic.

Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.

same as commercialization.

same as commercialize.

The commercial spirit or method.

the act or process of making something commercial in character. See commercialize.

to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects; as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.

organized principally for financial gain.

In a commercial manner.

Migration together.

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms.

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.

The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.

Pitiable.

To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

Feeling or expressing commiseration.

One who pities.

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries. The body of officers charged with such service.

One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.

The office or employment of a commissary.

To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.

One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like.

Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.

To commission

holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above; -- of military officers. Contrasts with noncommissioned.

A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.

An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

The office of commissioner.

Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.

Of or pertaining to a commissure.

A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

To sin; esp., to be incontinent.

the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.

The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

Capable of being committed.

The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted.

One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

A member of a committee.

One who commits; one who does or perpetrates.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed.

To mix or mingle together; to blend.

Commixture.

Commixture; mingling.

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.

A gratuitous loan.

A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house.

In a commodious manner.

State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess.

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.

To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

a room, usually at a school or university, set aside for the common use of everyone. It usually has comfortable chairs for reading or conversation, and some provision for obtaining refreshments.

Held in common.

The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.

the sharing of common attributes.

The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

Advice; warning; instruction.

Monitory.

Calling to mind; giving admonition.

Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.