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1. An approach or advent. Mas singer: D. of Milan. "Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming - on of storms." Long fellow: An April Day. A. Ordinary Language: I. Literally: 1. In the same sense as B. I. *2. A clause, a category. *II. Fig .: Any short pause or delay; a slight hindrance or block. no levell'd malice Infects one comma in the course I hold." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, i. 1. B. Technically : 2. Growth, improvement, increase. côm'-Ing (2), pr . par ., a. & 8. [COME (2), v.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip . adj .: (See the the shortest pause in reading and the smallest verb.) C. As subst.: The act of sprouting, as barley. "In the coming or sprouting of malt,..."- Mortimer . *co-min-gle, v. t. [Pref. co con, and mingle (q. v.).] To mix, mingle, temper. "Whose blood and judgment are so well comingled." Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2. The Quartos read comeddled (q. v.). cō-min-gling, pr . par . & s. [COMINGLE.] A. As pr . par.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of mingling or mixing; a mixture. com-îq'ue, s . [Fr.] A comic actor or singer. *com-It-ant, a. [Lat. comitans , pr. par. of com it or = to accompany.] Accompanying, attending, concomitant. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, cell, chorus, -cian, -tian = shan. -tion, -sion = shun; IMG:content-0269.png:[blocks in formation] "To him which all me may comaunde." (2) To hold in subjection, to have under one's authority. (3) To be a leader of; to lead or direct, as a general does his army. "Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love." Shakesp.: Macbeth , v. 2. *(4) To order a person to be removed to or put in some place. "To close prison he commanded her." Shakesp.: Two Gent, of Ver., iii. 1. 2. Of things: To order or direct to be done; to require (opposed to forbid and prohibit ). "Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he." Gen. vi. 22. II. Figuratively : 1. To demand, to claim, to call for. "Thus the history of this, perhaps the only unmingled, race which can boast of high antiquity, leads us through every gradation of society, and brings us into contact with almost every nation which commands our interest in the ancient world."-Milman: Hist. of Jews (3d ed.), bk. i., vol. i., p. 2. 2. To have the right or power of demanding or ordering; to call for. "The theme though humble, yet august and proud The occasion for the Fair commands the song." Cowper: Task, i. 7. *3. To have at one's disposal or service. "It is in mine authority to command the keys of all the posterns." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, i. 2. "As doth a sail command an argosy To stem the waves." 5. To be in such a position as to have power to prevent acce to, or pa age by, any place. 6. To overlook, to po e a view over. "Commanding the rich scenes beneath, The windings of the Forth and Teith, And all the vales between that lie, Till Stirling's turrets melt the sky." IMG:content-0270.png:[blocks in formation] 2. An order given with authority; a mandate. "God so commanded, and left that command." Milton: P. L., ix. 651. *3. Despotism, exercise of authority. "Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion."-Locke: On Education. IMG:content-0271.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0272.png:[blocks in formation] (2) A large wooden mallet or beetle, used specially in the sails and rigging lofts, as anything of metal would injure the ropes or canvas. *2. Surg.: An instrument or apparatus used as a rest or cradle for a fractured limb. ( Wiseman .) *3. Engineering: A heavy mallet or beetle used in paving. "A commander, which is of wood with a handle, where- with stakes are driven into the ground; a rammer." -No- men clat or, 1585. IMG:content-0273.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Among the Knights Templars, Hospitallers, ., a district under the administration and control of a member of the order, called the commander or preceptor, who received the income of the estates within that district, expending part for his own use, and accounting for the rest. In England more especially applied to a manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. "These establishments formed at the same time branches. On the first creation of these [branch] establishments, they were denominated Preceptories: the superior being called the preceptor; but eventually the name became changed to that of commandery , by which they were always afterward known. The council reserved to themselves the power of at any time recalling a com- mander from his post, and substituting another in his place, at their pleasure; he being merely considered as the steward of their property. Time, however, gradually wrought a great change in the relative position which the commanders held to the council; and, eventually, a nom- in at i on to a commandery came to be considered in the light of a legal acquisition, subject only to the payment of a certain amount of annual tribute to the public treas- ury, which tribute received the name of Responsions."- Major Porter : Hist . Knights of Malta , vol. i., ch. ii. (2) A house, technically called a cell, for collect- ing the demesne rents of a commandery, and serving also as a home for veteran members of the order. ( Ogilvie .) IMG:content-0274.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0275.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Overlooking, overtopping; lofty. "From some commanding eminence Words worth: Excursion, bk. vii. IMG:content-0276.png:[blocks in formation] *com-mand'-le , a . [Eng. command; -le .] 1. Lit .: Not holding a command. 2. Fig .: Unrestrained, ungovernable. "Se sergant dede thes lordes comm an dement." Old Eng. Miscell . (ed. Morris), p. 38. 2. Plur.: In the same sense as B. I. *3. Authority, power, command. II. Fig .: The ten fingers or nails of the hands. "Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II ., L. & IMG:content-0277.png:[blocks in formation] Sinew'd with action, and the full-grown will, Circled thro' all experiences, pure law, Commeasure perfect freedom." - Tennyson: Enone. IMG:content-0278.png:[blocks in formation] "The succeeding paschal sacrifices, though commem- oratory of the first,."-Hooper: On Lent, p. 271. *com'-měn, pa . par . [COME.] "And commen to his reskew, ere his bitter bane." Spenser: F. Q., II. xi. 29. com-měn çe, *com-ençen, *com-sen, *cum- sen, v. i . & t. [Fr. commencer; Ital. com inc i are, from a Low Lat. *cominitio: com con ; initio = to begin; Lat. initium =a beginning.] 7. To praise, approve, or recommend. "Thou ought est wel to be com ended ."- Gower , ii. 62. "Who is Silvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her?" B. In trans.: To praise, to approve. "One, over eager to commend , Crowned it with injudicious praise." *com-měnd' (1), s . [COMMAND, v .] "I haue also ane schorte commend compyld, To expone strange hist or i is and termes wylde." Doug.: Virgil , 483, 44. *com-měnd (2), s. [COMMEND, v .] I. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-0279.png:[blocks in formation] côm-měn'-çer, s. [Eng. commenc(e); -er.] 1. Ord. Lang.: One who commences, begins, or originates anything. *2. Tech .: One who takes his degree at Cam- bridge. ( Eng .) 1. To commit or deliver to one's charge; to intrust. 2. To send to, to present. "These draw the chariot which Latin us sends, And the rich present to the prince commends." Dryden: Virgil ; Eneid vii. 892. 3. To recommend; to represent as deserving of notice, regard, or favor. "Something to blame, and something to commend." Pope: Epist . , iii. 22. "To thee I do commend my watchful soul." Shakesp.: Richard III., v. 3. 5. To recommend or bring to one's remembrance or kind feelings; to greet. "Comendyn or gretyn or preysyn."- Prompt . Parv . commendation. 6. To submit or display for favorable notice or to give the young ladies an occasion of enter- taining the French king with vocal music, and of com- mending their own voices." -Dryden: Duf. -ly .] In a commendable manner; laudably, praise- worthily. commendably laboring in their vocation."- Carew: Survey of Cornwall. "Mrs. Page has her hearty commendations to you too." Shakesp.: Merry Wives , ii. 2. 4. The act of praising or approving. 5. Approval, praise. commendator 6. A ground or reason for praise or approbation. "Good-nature is the most godlike commendation of a man."-Dryden: Juvenal ( Dedication ). *II. Eccles .: A prayer in which catechumens, penitents, and persons at the point of death were solemnly commended to the mercy of God. [COMMENDATORY, A. II. 1.]