com memorize (komemoriz)

t. [As commemor- ate + -ize. To commemorate. [Rare.] The late happy and memorable enterprise of the planting of that part of America called New England, deserveth to be com memorized to future posterity. N. Morton , New England's Memorial, p. 17. In bot . , one of the principal genera of the natucomment, v. i. An old form of common . ral order Com mel in ace a , comprising about 90 commence (ko-mens'), v.; pret. and pp. com species. Several are cultivated on account of their deli- menced , ppr. commencing . [In ME. only in contr. commend form comsen, cumsen (see comse ); Thy nature did commence in sufferance; time Hath made thee hard in 't. Shak ., T. of A., iv. 3. Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Emerson , Nature, p. 69. 2. To enter a new state or a ume a new char acter; begin to be (something different); turn to be or become. Should he at length, being undone, commence patriot. Junius, Letters, July 31, 1771. In an evil hour he commenced author, not only surrounded by his books, but with the more urgent companions of a wife and family. I. D'Israeli, Calam. of Auth., I. 50. It is... too common, now-a-days, for young men, directly on being made free of a magazine, or of a newspaper, to commence word-coiners. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 103. 3. [Tr. ML. incipere, take a doctors' degree, lit. begin, commence: a university term.] To take a degree, or the first degree, in a university or college. See commencement. Then is he held a freshman and a sot, And never shall commence . Middle ton and Dekker , Roaring Girl, iii. 3. He [Charles Chauncy] commenced Bachelor of Divinity. Hist. Sketch of First Ch. in Boston (1812), p. 211. "To commence M. A.," etc., meaning "to take the degree of M. A.," etc., has been a recognized phrase for some three centuries at least. F. Hall , False Philol., p. 40. II. trans. To cause to begin to be; perform the first act of; enter upon; begin: as, to com mence operations; to commence a suit, action, or proce in law. Like a hungry lion, did commence Rough deeds of rage. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 7. Here closed the Tenant of that lonely vale His mournful narrative- commenced in pain, In pain commenced , and ended without peace. Words worth, Excursion, iv. =Syn. Commence, Begin. In all ordinary uses commence is exactly synonymous with begin, which, as a purely Eng. lish word, is nearly always preferable, but more especially before another verb in the infinitive.