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.

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.

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.

To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

the activity of communicating.

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.

Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.

The quality of being communicative.

One who communicates.

Imparting knowledge or information.

The act of sharing; community; participation.

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.

An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

The quality of being commutable.

Capable of being commuted or interchanged.

The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

the property of a binary operation or operator such that the result of one term operating on a second is equal to the result of the second term operating on the first.

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction. It may be attached to the end of the spindle of an electric motor, where a brush is in contact sequentially with the parts of the spindle that conduct current to the different windings of the motor.

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

of or pertaining to commuting, in the sense of traveling; used for commuting; as, a commuter airline.

the process of travel by a commuter.

Mutual; reciprocal; united.

Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.

An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

a disk-shaped optical data storage medium approximately 4-3/4 in. in diameter, which stores binary data as microscopic nonreflective holes or pits in an otherwise reflective surface, and is recorded and played back by rotation in an electronic device containing a laser. It is often referred to by its abbreviation CD. It is a type of optical data storage medium. Compact disks are used for recordings of music as well as of data for computer applications.

an electronic device containing a laser, used to read or play back the data on a compact disk. The term is usually used for the type of device used to play music recordings. That used for data storgage n coputer applications is usually called a CD drive. Called also CD player and informally, CD.

Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.

In a compact manner.

A state of being compact.

One who makes a compact.

That may be compacted.

The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.

In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction.

A system or structure of many parts united.

To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame.

Union of parts; structure.

Companionable; sociable.

Same as Impanator.

Companionable; sociable.

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.

companionlike; as, companionate marriage; a companionate dog.

Without a companion.

Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.