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.

To migrate together.

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.

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.

State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

Commonwealth.

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

See Commorancy.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.

A resident.

The act of staying or residing in a place.

Dying together or at the same time.

Remorse.

To commove; to disturb; to stir up.

Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.

To urge; to persuade; to incite.

Pertaining to a commune.

A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.

An advocate of communalism.

Pertaining to communalism.

The commonalty; the common people.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

Communicating.