Fletcher, The Pilgrim

4. 3. To require with authority; demand; order; enjoin: with a thing as direct object: as, he commanded silence. If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Mat. iv. 3. Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. Milton , P. L., iv. 747. 4. To have within the range of one's (its) power or within the sphere of influence; dominate through ability, resources, position, etc., often specifically through military power or position; hence, have within the range of the eye; overlook. The haughty Dane commands the narrow seas. Marlowe , Edward II., ii. 2. The other [key] doth command a little door. Shak., M. for M., iv. 1. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak ., T. and C., i. 2. One side commands a view of the finest garden in the Add is on, Guardian, No. 101. world. A cro of stone, That, on a hillock standing lone, Did all the field command. IMG:content-0869.png:[blocks in formation] 4t. In rhet ., a slight pause between two phrases, people. clauses, or words. We vse sometimes to proceede all by single words, without any close or coupling, sauing that a little pause or comma is geuen to euery word. This figure may be called in our vulgar the culted comma, for that there cannot be a shorter diuision than at euery words end. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie (ed. Arber), p. 222. It [criticism] has been the road to fame and profit, and has commanded both applause and guineas, when the unfortunate objects of it have been ble ed with neither. Whipple , E . and Rev., I. 10. 7. To have at one's disposal and service. Such aid as I can spare you shall command. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 5. 8t. To intrust; commit; commend. See com mend. Kynge Ban and his brother arayed hem to move the thirde day, and Comaunded theire londes in the kepynge of Leonces, and Pharien, that was theire cosyn germayn, and a gode man and right a trewe. -7. A spot or mark shaped like such a comma. -8. In entom.: (a) A butterfly, Grapta Grapta comma album: so named from a comma-shaped white mark on the under side of the wings. ( b ) [ cap.] [NL.] A genus of lepidopterous insects. Ren nie, 1832. - Comma bacillus. See bacillus, 3. com macula tet (ko-mak'ū-lāt), v. t. [L. com maculatus, pp. of commaculare, pollute, = Detesting sinne, that doth com maculate The soule of man. The Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 98.