Comber – Commissioned

Comber

COMBER, noun One who combs; one whose occupation is to comb wool, etc.

COMBER, noun Incumbrance.

COMBER, noun A long slender fish with a red back, found in Cornwall, England.

Combinable

COMBINABLE, adjective Capable of combining.

Combinate

COMBINATE, adjective [See Combine.] Espoused; betrothed.

Combination

COMBINATION, noun

1. Intimate union, or association of two or more persons or things, by set purpose or agreement, for effecting some object, by joint operation; in a good sense, when the object is laudable; in an ill sense, when it is illegal or iniquitous. It is sometimes equivalent to league, or to conspiracy. We say, a combination of men to overthrow government, or a combination to resist oppression.

2. An assemblage; union of particulars; as a combination of circumstances.

3. Commixture; union of bodies or qualities in a mass or compound; as, to make new compounds by new combinations.

4. Chimical union; union by affinity.

Mix dry acid of tartar with dry carbonate of potash; no combination will ensue, till water is added.

5. In mathematics, the union of numbers or quantities in every possible manner; or the variation or alteration of any number of quantities, letters, sounds, or the like, in all the different manners possible. The number of possible changes or combinations is found by multiplying the terms 1.2.3.4.5 continually into each other. Thus 1x2=2: 2x3=6: 6x4=24: 24x5=120. etc. So the permutations of five quantities amount to 120. The changes that may be rung on twelve bells amount to 479, 001, 600. And the twenty four letters of the alphabet admit of 62, 044, 840, 173, 323, 943, 936, 000 changes or combinations.

Combine

COMBINE, verb transitive

1. To unite or join two or more things; to link closely together.

Friendship combines the hearts of men.

2. To agree; to accord; to settle by compact.

3. To join words or ideas together; opposed to analyze.

4. To cause to unite; to bring into union or confederacy.

The violence of revolutionary France combined the posers of Europe in opposition.

COMBINE, verb intransitive To unite, agree or coalesce.

Honor and policy combine to justify the measure.

2. To unite in friendship or design; to league together.

You with your foes combine

3. To unite by affinity, or natural attraction

Two substances which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.

4. To confederate; to unite as nations.

The powers of Europe combined against France.

Combined

COMBINED, participle passive United closely; associated; leagued; confederated; chimically united.

Combing

COMBING, participle present tense Separating and adjusting hair, wool, etc.

COMBING, noun Borrowed hair combed over a bald part of the head.

Combining

COMBINING, participle present tense Uniting closely; joining in purpose; confederating; uniting by chimical affinity.

Combless

COMBLESS, adjective Without a comb or crest; as a combless cock.

Combust

COMBUST, adjective When a planet is in conjunction with the sun or apparently very near it, it is said to be combust or in combustion. The distance within which this epithet is applicable to a planet, is said by some writers to be 8 degrees; others say, within the distance of half the suns disk.

Combustibility

COMBUSTIBILITY, noun The quality of taking fire and burning; the quality of a substance which admits the action of fire upon it; capacity of being burnt, or combined with oxygen.

The quality of throwing out heat and light, in the rapid combination of its substance with another body.

Combustible

COMBUSTIBLE, adjective That will take fire and burn; capable of catching fire; thus, wood and coal are combustible bodies.

COMBUSTIBLE, noun A substance that will take fire and burn; a body which, in its rapid union with others, disengages heat and light.

Combustibleness

COMBUSTIBLENESS,

COMBUSTION, noun

1. The operation of fire on inflammable substances; or according to modern chimistry, the union of an inflammable substance with oxygen, attended with light, and in most instances, with heat. In the combustion of a substance, heat or caloric is disengaged, and oxygen is absorbed.

This theory of Lavoisier being found somewhat defective, the following definition is given. Combustion is the disengagement of heat and light which accompanies chimical combination.

Combustion cannot be regarded as dependent on any peculiar principle or form of matter, but must be considered as a general result of intense chimical action.

2. In popular language, a burning; the process or action of fire in consuming a body, attended with heat, or heat and flame; as the combustion of wood or coal.

3. Conflagration; a great fire. Hence, from the violent agitation of fire or flame,

4. Tumult; violent agitation with hurry and noise; confusion; uproar.

Combustion

COMBUSTION, n. 1. The operation of fire on inflammable substances; or according to modern chimistry, the union of an inflammable substance with oxygen, attended with light, and in most instances, with heat. In the combustion of a substance, heat or caloric is disengaged, and oxygen is absorbed.This theory of Lavoisier being found somewhat defective, the following definition is given. Combustion is the disengagement of heat and light which accompanies chimical combination.Combustion cannot be regarded as dependent on any peculiar principle or form of matter, but must be considered as a general result of intense chimical action.2. In popular language, a burning; the process or action of fire in consuming a body, attended with heat, or heat and flame; as the combustion of wood or coal.3. Conflagration; a great fire. Hence, from the violent agitation of fire or flame, 4. Tumult; violent agitation with hurry and noise; confusion; uproar.

Come

COME, verb intransitive

1. To move towards; to advance near, in any manner, and from any distance. We say, the men come this way, whether riding or on foot; the wind comes from the west; the ship comes with a fine breeze; light comes from the sun. It is applicable perhaps to every thing susceptible of motion, and is opposed to go.

2. To draw nigh; to approach; to arrive; to be present

COME thou and all thy house into the ark. Genesis 7:1.

All my time will I wait, till my change come Job 14:14.

When shall I come and appear before God? Psalms 42:2.

Then shall the end come Matthew 24:5.

Thy kingdom come; thy will be done. Matthew 6:10.

The time has come

3. To advance and arrive at some state or condition; as, the ships came to action; the players came to blows; is it come to this?

His sons come to honor and he knoweth it not. Job 14:14.

I wonder how he came to know what had been done; how did he come by his knowledge? the heir comes into possession of his estate; the man will come in time to abhor the vices of his youth, or he will come to be poor and despicable, or to poverty.

In these and similar phrases, we observe the process or advance is applied to the body or to the mind, indifferently; and to persons or events.

4. To happen or fall out; as, how comes that? Let come what will. Hence when followed by an object or person, with to or on, to befall; to light on.

After all that has come on us for our evil deeds. Ezra 9:13.

All things come alike to all. Ecclesiastes 9:2.

5. To advance or move into view; to appear; as, blood or color comes and goes in the face.

6. To sprout, as plants; to spring. The corn comes or comes up. In the coming or sprouting of malt, as it must not come too little, so it must not come too much. So Bacon uses the word; and this use of it coincides nearly with the sense of 2 Kings 19:26 and in the same chapter inserted in Isaiah 37:3. It is the G. Kiemen, Icelandic kiema, to bud, or germinate.

7. To become.

So came I a widow.

8. To appear or be formed, as butter; to advance or change from cream to butter; a common use of the word; as, the butter comes.

9. come in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come let us go.

This is the heir; come let us kill him.

When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste; come come Sometimes if expresses or introduces rebuke.

As the sense of come is to move, in almost any manner, in its various applications, that sense is modified indefinitely by other words used in connection with it. Thus with words expressing approach, it denotes advancing nearer; with words expressing departure, as from, of, out of, etc., it denotes motion from, etc.

To come about, to happen; to fall out; to come to pass; to arrive. How did these tings come about? So the French venir a bout, to come to the end, that is, to arrive.

To come about, to turn; to change; to come round. The wind will come about from west to east. The ship comes about. It is applied to a change of sentiments.

On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,

They are come about, and won to the true side.

To come again, to return. Genesis 28:21, Leviticus 14:8.

To come after, to follow. Matthew 24:5. Also to come to obtain; as, to come after a book.

To come at, to reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; to come so near as to be able to take or possess. We prize those most who are hardest to come at. To come at a true knowledge of ourselves.

Also, to come towards, as in attacking.

To come away, to depart from; to leave; to issue from.

To come back, to return.

To come by, to pass near; a popular phrase. Also, to obtain, gain, acquire; that is, to come near, at or close. Examine how you came by all your state.

This is not an irregular or improper use of this word. It is precisely equivalent to possess, to sit by. [See Possess.]

To come down, to descend.

The Lord will come down on mount Sinai. Exodus 19:2.

Also, to be humbled or abased.

Your principalities shall come down. Jeremiah 13:18.

COME down from thy glory. Jeremiah 48:2.

To come for, to come to get or obtain; to come after.

To come forth, to issue or proceed from. Gen 15, Isaiah 11:1, Micah 5:2.

Also, to depart from; to leave. Mark 9:1.

Also, to come abroad. Jer 4.

To come from, to depart from to leave. In popular language, this phrase is equivalent to, where is his native place or former place of residence; where did this man, this animal or this plant originate.

To come home, that is, to come to home, or the house; to arrive at the dwelling. Hence, to come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason.

COME is an intransitive verb, but the participle come is much used with the substantive verb, in the passive form. The end of all flesh is come I am come thou art come he is come we are come etc. This use of the substantive verb, for have, is perhaps too well established to be rejected; but have or has should be used in such phrases. In the phrase, come Friday, come Candlemas, there is an ellipsis of certain words, as when Friday shall come

COME, come the repetition of come expresses haste, or exhortation to hasten. Sometimes it introduces a threat.

COME, noun A sprout.

Come-Off

COME-OFF, noun Means of escape; evasion; excuse

We do not want this come-off

Comedian

COMEDIAN, noun [See Comedy.]

1. An actor or player in comedy; or a player in general, male or female.

2. A write of comedy.

Comedy

COMEDY, noun A dramatic composition intended to represent human characters, which are to be imitated in language, dress and manner, by actors on a stage, for the amusement of spectators. The object of comedy is said to be to recommend virtue and make vice ridiculous; but the real effect is amusement.

Comelily

COMELILY, adverb In a suitable or decent manner.

Comeliness

COMELINESS, noun That which is becoming, fit or suitable, in form or manner. comeliness of person implies symmetry or due proportion of parts; comeliness of manner implies decorum and propriety. It signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness.

A careless comeliness with comely care.

He hath no form nor comeliness Isaiah 53:2.

Comely

COMELY, adjective

1. Properly, becoming; suitable: whence, handsome; graceful. Applied to person or form, it denotes symmetry or due proportion, but it expresses less than beautiful or elegant.

I have seen a son of Jesse ... comely person. 1 Samuel 16:18.

I will not conceal his comely proportion. Job 41:12.

2. Decent; suitable; proper; becoming; suited to time, place, circumstances or persons.

Praise is comely for the upright. Psalms 33:1.

It is comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? 1 Corinthians 11:13.

O what a world is this, when what is comely envenoms him that bears it.

COMELY, adverb Handsomely; gracefully.

Comencing

COMENCING, participle present tense Beginning; entering on; originating.

Comer

COMER, noun One that comes; one who approaches; one who has arrived and is present.

Comessation

COMESSATION, noun Feasting or reveling.

Comestible

COMESTIBLE, adjective Eatable.

Comet

COMET, noun An opake, spherical, solid body, like a planet, but accompanied with a train of light, performing revolutions about the sun, in an elliptical orbit, having the sun in one of its foci. In its approach to its perihelion, it becomes visible, and after passing its perihelion, it departs into remote regions and disappears. In popular language, comets are tailed, bearded or hairy, but these terms are taken from the appearance of the light which attends the, which, in different positions with respect to the sun, exhibits the form of a t ail or train, a beard, or a border of hair. When the comet is westward of the sun and rises or sets before it, the light appears in the morning like a train beginning at the body of the comet and extending westward and diverging in proportion to its extent. Thus the comet of 1769, [which I saw, ] when it rose in the morning, presented a luminous train that extended nearly from the horizon to the meridian. When the comet and the sun are opposite, the earth being between them, the comet is, to the view, immersed in its train and the light appears around its body like a fringe or border of hair. From the train of a comet this body has obtained the popular name of a blazing star.

Herschel observed several comets, which appeared to have no nucleus, but to be merely collections of vapor condensed about a center.

COMET, noun A game at cards.

Comet-Like

COMET-LIKE, adjective Resembling a comet.

Cometarium

COMETARIUM,

COMETARY, noun A machine exhibiting an idea of the revolution of a comet round the sun.

COMETARY, adjective Pertaining to a comet.

Cometary

COMETARY, n. A machine exhibiting an idea of the revolution of a comet round the sun.

COMETARY, a. Pertaining to a comet.

Cometic

COMETIC, adjective Relating to a comet.

Cometography

COMETOGRAPHY, noun A description or treatise of comets.

Comfit

COMFIT,

COMFIT-MAKER, noun One who makes or prepares comfits.

Comfiture

COMFITURE, noun A dry sweet-meat; any kind of fruit or root preserved with sugar and dried.

COMFIT, verb transitive To preserve dry with sugar.

Comfort

COMFORT, verb transitive

1. To strengthen; to invigorate; to cheer or enliven.

Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.

COMFORT ye your hearts. Genesis 18:5.

2. To strengthen the mind when depressed or enfeebled; to console; to give new vigor to the spirits; to cheer, or relieve from depression, or trouble.

His friends came to mourn with him and to comfort him. Job 2:11.

3. In law, to relieve, assist or encourage, as the accessory to a crime after the fact.

COMFORT, noun

1. Relief from pain; ease; rest or moderate pleasure after pain, cold or distress or uneasiness of body. The word signifies properly new strength, or animation; and relief from pain is often the effect of strength. In a popular sense, the word signifies rather negatively the absence of pain and the consequent quiet, than positive animation.

2. Relief from distress of mind; the ease and quiet which is experienced when pain, trouble, agitation or affliction ceases. It implies also some degree of positive animation of the spirits; or some pleasurable sensations derived from hope, and agreeable prospects; consolation.

Let me alone, that I may take comfort a little. Job 10:20.

Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. Matthew 9:22.

3. Support; consolation under calamity, distress or danger.

Let thy merciful kindness be for my comfort Psalms 119:50.

4. That which gives strength or support in distress, difficulty, danger, or infirmity.

Pious children are the comfort of their aged parents.

5. In law, support; assistance; countenance; encouragement; as, an accessory affords aid or comfort to a felon.

6. That which gives security from want and furnishes moderate enjoyment; as the comforts of life.

Comfortable

COMFORTABLE, adjective

1. Being in a state of ease, or moderate enjoyment; as a person after sickness or pain. This is the most common use of the word in the U. States.

2. Admitting comfort; that may afford comfort.

Who can promise him a comfortable appearance before his dreadful judge?

3. Giving comfort; affording consolation.

The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable 2 Samuel 14:17.

4. Placing above want and affording moderate enjoyment; as a comfortable provision for old age.

Comfortableness

COMFORTABLENESS, noun The state of enjoying comfort.

Comfortabley

COMFORTABLEY, adverb

1. In a manner to give comfort or consolation.

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Isaiah 40:2.

2. With comfort, or cheerfulness; without despair.

Hope comfortably and cheerfully for Gods performance.

Comforted

COMFORTED, participle passive Strengthened; consoled; encouraged.

Comforter

COMFORTER, noun

1. One who administers comfort or consolation; one who strengthens and supports the mind in distress or danger.

I looked for comforters, but found none. Psalms 69:20.

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job 16:2.

2. The title of the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name--he shall teach you all things. John 14:16.

Comforting

COMFORTING, participle present tense Giving strength or spirits; giving ease; cheering; encouraging; consoling.

Comfortless

COMFORTLESS, adjective Without comfort; without any thing to alleviate misfortune, or distress.

I will not leave you comfortless John 14:18.

Comfortress

COMFORTRESS, noun A female that affords comfort.

Comfrey

COMFREY,

COMFRY, noun A genus of plants, the Symphytum.

Comfry

COMFRY, n. A genus of plants, the Symphytum.

Comic

COMIC, adjective

1. Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.

2. Raising mirth; fitted to excite merriment.

Comical

COMICAL, adjective

1. Relating to comedy; comic.

2. Exciting mirth; diverting; sportive; droll.

We say, a buffoon is a comical fellow, or his story or his manners are comica.

Comically

COMICALLY, adverb

1. In a manner befitting comedy.

2. In a comical manner; in a manner to raise mirth.

Comicalness

COMICALNESS, noun The quality of being comical; the power or quality of raising mirth.

Coming

COMING, participle present tense

1. Drawing nearer or nigh; approaching; moving towards; advancing.

2. Future; yet to come; as, in coming ages.

3. Forward; ready to come.

How coming to the poet every muse.

COMING, noun

1. The act of coming; approach.

2. The state of being come; arrival.

The Lord hath blessed thee since my coming Genesis 30:30.

COMING, noun

1. Entrance.

I know thy going-out and thy coming-in. 2 Kings 19:27.

2. Beginning; commencement; as the coming-in of the year. 2 Kings 13:20.

3. Income; revenue.

4. Compliance; submission.

Comitial

COMITIAL, adjective

1. Relating to the comitia or popular assemblies of the Romans, for electing officers and passing laws.

2. Relating to an order of presbyterian assemblies.

Comity

COMITY, noun Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy; civility; good breeding. Wellbred people are characterized by comity of manners.

Comma

COMMA, noun

1. In writing and printing, this point [, ] denoting the shortest pause in reading, and separating a sentence into divisions or members, according to the construction. Thus, There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Virtue, wit, knowledge, are excellent accomplishments. Live soberly, righteously, and piously, in the present world.

2. In music, an enharmonic interval, being the eighth part of a tone, or the difference between a major and a minor semitone; a term used in theoretic music to show the exact proportions between concords.

3. Distinction.

Command

COMMAND, verb transitive

1. To bid; to order; to direct; to charge; implying authority, and power to control, and to require obedience.

We will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us. Exodus 8:27.

I know that he [Abraham] will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Genesis 18:19.

2. To govern, lead or direct; to have or to exercise supreme authority over.

Lord Wellington commanded an army in Spain; he commanded the army at the battle of Waterloo.

3. To have in power; to be able to exercise power or authority over; as, a military post commands the surrounding country; a fort commands the harbor.

4. To overlook, or have in the power of the eye, without obstruction.

One side commands a view of the finest garden in the world.

5. To direct; to send.

The Lord shall command the blessing on thee. Deuteronomy 28:1.

The Lord will command his loving kindness. Psalms 43:1.

6. To have or to exercise a controlling influence over.

A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.

COMMAND, verb intransitive To have or to exercise supreme authority; to possess the chief power; to govern; as, the general commands with dignity and humanity. What general commands in Canada?

COMMAND, noun

1. The right or power of governing with chief or exclusive authority; supreme power; control; as, an officer has a brigade under his command; he takes command of the army in France; an appropriate military term.

2. The power of controlling; governing influence; sway.

He assumed an absolute command over his readers.

3. Cogent or absolute authority.

COMMAND and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion.

4. The act of commanding; the mandate uttered; order given.

The captain gives command

5. The power of overlooking, or surveying, without obstruction.

The steepy strand, Which overlooks the vale with wide command

6. The power of governing or controlling by force, or of defending and protecting.

The fortress has complete command of the port.

7. That which is commanded control; as a body of troop under command

Commandable

COMMANDABLE, adjective That may be commanded.

Commandant

COMMANDANT, noun A commander; a commanding officer of a place or of a body of forces.

Commandatory

COMMANDATORY, adjective Having the force of a command.

Commanded

COMMANDED, participle passive Ordered; directed; governed; controlled.

Commander

COMMANDER, noun

1. A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. The term may also be applied to the admiral of a fleet, or of a squadron, or to any supreme officer; as the commander of the land or of the naval force; the commander of a ship.

2. One on whom is bestowed a benefice or commandry.

3. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, etc.

4. An instrument of surgery.

Commandery

COMMANDERY,

COMMANDINGLY, adverb In a commanding manner.

Commandingly

COMMANDINGLY, adv. In a commanding manner.

Commandment

COMMANDMENT, noun

1. A command; a mandate; an order or injunction given by authority; charge; precept.

Why do ye transgress the commandment of God. Matthew 15:3.

This is the first and great commandment Matthew 22:38.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. John 13:34.

2. By way of eminence, a precept of the decalogue, or moral law, written on tables of stone, at Mount Sinai; one of the ten commandments. Exodus 34:32.

3. Authority; coercive power.

Commandning

COMMANDNING, pr.

1. Bidding; ordering; directing with authority; governing; bearing rule; exercising supreme authority; having in power; overlooking without obstruction.

2. adjective Controlling by influence, authority, or dignity; as a man of commanding manners; a commanding eloquence.

Commandress

COMMANDRESS, noun A woman invested with supreme authority.

Commandry

COMMANDRY, noun A kind of benefice or fixed revenue, belonging to a military order, conferred on knights of merit. There are strict and regular commandries, obtained by merit, or in order; and others are of grace and favor, bestowed by the Grand Master. There are also commandries for the religious, in the orders of St. Bernard and St. Anthony.

Commark

COMMARK, noun The frontier of a country.

Commaterial

COMMATERIAL, adjective Consisting of the same matter with another thing.

Commateriality

COMMATERIALITY, noun Participation of the same matter.

Commatism

COMMATISM, noun Briefness; conciseness in writing.

Commeasurable

COMMEASURABLE, adjective [See Measure.] Reducible to the same measure. But commensurable is generally used.

Commed

COMMED, noun Commendation.

Commeline

COMMELINE, noun A genus of herbaceous plants, Commelina, natives of warm climates. This name was given to this genus by Linne, in honor of the Commelins, distinguished botanists of Holland. These plants have flowers with three petals, two large and one small; the large petals representing John and Gaspard Commelin, who published catalogues of plants; the smaller petal representing another of the name who published nothing.

Commemorable

COMMEMORABLE, adjective Memorable; worthy to be remembered, or noticed with honor. [See Memorable.]

Commemorate

COMMEMORATE, verb transitive To call to remembrance by a solemn act; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of that person or event.

The Lords supper is designed to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior.

Commemorated

COMMEMORATED, participle passive Called to remembrance by some act of solemnity.

Commemorating

COMMEMORATING, participle present tense Celebrating with honor by some solemn act.

Commemoration

COMMEMORATION, noun The act of calling to remembrance, by some solemnity; the act of honoring the memory of some person or event, by solemn celebration. The feast of shells at Plymouth in Massachusetts is an annual commemoration of the first landing of our ancestors in 1620.

Commemorative

COMMEMORATIVE, adjective Tending to preserve the remembrance of something.

Commemoratory

COMMEMORATORY, adjective Serving to preserve the memory of.

Commence

COMMENCE, verb intransitive

1. To begin; to take rise or origin; to have first existence; as, a state of glory to commence after this life; this empire commenced at a late period.

2. To begin to be, as in a change of character.

Let not learning too commence its foe.

3. To take a degree or the first degree in a university or college.

COMMENCE, verb transitive

1. To begin; to enter upon; to perform the first act; as, to commence operations.

2. To begin; to originate; to bring; as, to commence a suit, action or process in law.

Commenced

COMMENCED, participle passive Begun; originated.

Commencement

COMMENCEMENT, noun

1. Beginning; rise; origin; first existence; as the commencement of New Style in 1752; the commencement of hostilities in 1775.

2. The time when students in colleges commence bachelors; a day in which degrees are publicly conferred on students who have finished a collegiate education. In Cambridge, Eng., the day when masters of arts and doctors complete their degrees.

Commend

COMMEND, verb transitive

1. To represent as worthy of notice, regard, or kindness; to speak in favor of; to recommend.

I commend to you Phebe our sister. Romans 16:1.

2. To commit; to entrust or give in charge.

Father, into hy hands I commend my spirit. Luke 23:46.

3. To praise; to mention with approbation.

The princes commended Sarai before Pharaoh. The Lord commended the unjust steward.

4. To make acceptable or more acceptable.

But meat commendeth us not to God. 1 Corinthians 8:8.

5. To produce or present to favorable notice.

The chorus had an occasion of commending their voices to the king.

6. To send or bear to.

These draw the chariot which Latinus sends,

And the rich present to the prince commends.

Commendable

COMMENDABLE, adjective That may be commended or praised; worthy of approbation or praise; laudable.

Order and decent ceremonies in the church are commendable

Commendableness

COMMENDABLENESS, noun State of being commendable.

Commendably

COMMENDABLY, adverb Laudably; in a praise-worthy manner.

Commendam

COMMENDAM, noun In ecclesiastical law, in England, a benefice or living commended, by the king or head of the church, to the care of a clerk, to hold till a proper pastor is provided. This may be temporary or perpetual.

The trust or administration of the revenues of a benefice given to a layman, to hold as a deposit for six months in order to repairs, etc., or to an ecclesiastic, to perform the pastoral duties, till the benefice is provided with a regular incumbent.

Commendatary

COMMENDATARY, noun One who holds a living in commendam.

Commendation

COMMENDATION, noun

1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; declaration of esteem.

Need we, as some other, letters of commendation 2 Corinthians 3:1.

2. Ground of esteem, approbation or praise; that which presents a person or thing to another in a favorable light, and renders worthy of regard, or acceptance.

Good-nature is the most godlike commendation of a man.

3. Service; respects; message of love.

Commendatory

COMMENDATORY, adjective

1. Which serves to commend; presenting to favorable notice or reception; containing praise; as a commendatory letter.

2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as a commendatory bishop.

COMMENDATORY, noun A commendation; eulogy.

Commended

COMMENDED, participle passive Praised; represented favorably; committed in charge.

Commender

COMMENDER, noun One who commends or praises.

Commending

COMMENDING, participle present tense Praising; representing favorably; committing, or delivering in charge.

Note: In imitation of the French, we are accustomed to use recommendation, etc., for commendation. But in most instances, it is better to use the word without the prefix re. A letter of commendation, is the preferable phrase.

Commensal

COMMENSAL, noun One that eats at the same table.

Commensality

COMMENSALITY, noun Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table.

Commensurability

COMMENSURABILITY,

COMMENSURABLE, adjective That have a common measure; reducible to a common measure. Thus a yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches. Commensurable numbers are those which may be measured or divided by another number without a remainder; as 12 and 18 which may be measured by 6 and 3.

Commensurable surds are those which, being reduced to their least terms, become true figurative quantities of their kind; and are therefore as a rational quantity to a rational one.

Commensurable

COMMENSURABLE, a. That have a common measure; reducible to a common measure. Thus a yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches. Commensurable numbers are those which may be measured or divided by another number without a remainder; as 12 and 18 which may be measured by 6 and 3. Commensurable surds are those which, being reduced to their least terms, become true figurative quantities of their kind; and are therefore as a rational quantity to a rational one.

Commensurableness

COMMENSURABLENESS, noun The capacity of being compared with another in measure, or of being measured by another, or of having a common measure.

Commensurate

COMMENSURATE, adjective

1. Reducible to one and the same common measure.

2. Equal; proportional; having equal measure or extent.

We fine nothing in this life commensurate to our desires.

COMMENSURATE, verb transitive To reduce to a common measure.

Commensurately

COMMENSURATELY, adverb

1. With the capacity of measuring or being measured by some other thing.

2. With equal measure or extent.

Commensuration

COMMENSURATION, noun Proportion, or proportion in measure; a state of having a common measure.

All fitness lies in a particular commensuration or proportion, of one thing to another.

Comment

COMMENT, verb intransitive

1. To write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to explain; to expound; to annotate; followed by on. We say, to comment on an author or on his writings.

2. To make verbal remarks, or observations, either on a book, or writing, or on actions, events or opinions.

COMMENT, verb transitive

1. To explain

2. To feign; to devise.

COMMENT, noun

1. A note, intended to illustrate a writing, or a difficult passage in an author; annotation; explanation; exposition; as the comments of Scott on the Scriptures.

2. That which explains or illustrates; as, a mans conduct is the best comment on his declarations. Poverty and disgrace are very significant comments on lewdness, gambling and dissipation.

3. Remark; observation.

In such a time as this, it is not meet

That every nice offense should bear its comment

Commentary

COMMENTARY, noun

1. A comment; exposition; explanation; illustration of difficult and obscure passages in an author.

2. A book of comments or annotations.

3. A historical narrative; a memoir or particular transactions, as the commentaries of Cesar.

COMMENTARY, verb transitive To write notes upon.

Commentator

COMMENTATOR, noun One who comments; one who writes annotations; an expositor; an annotator. [The accent on the first syllable and that on the third are nearly equal.]

Commenter

COMMENTER, noun

1. One that writes comments; an annotator.

2. One who makes remarks.

Commenting

COMMENTING, participle present tense Making notes or comments on something said or written.

Commentitious

COMMENTITIOUS, adjective Invented; feigned; imaginary.

Commerce

COMMERCE, noun

1. In a general sense, an interchange or mutual change of goods, wares, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals, either by barter, or by purchase and sale; trade; traffick. commerce is foreign or inland. Foreign commerce is the trade which one nation carries on with another; inland commerce or inland trade, is the trade in the exchange of commodities between citizens of the same nation or state. Active commerce

2. Intercourse between individuals; interchange of work, business, civilities or amusements; mutual dealings in common life.

3. Familiar intercourse between the sexes.

4. Interchange; reciprocal communications; as, there is a vast commerce of ideas.

COMMERCE, verb intransitive

1. To traffick; to carry on trade.

2. To hold intercourse with.

And looks commercing with the skies.

Commercial

COMMERCIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to commerce or trade; as commercial concerns; commercial relations.

2. Carrying on commerce; as a commercial nation.

3. Proceeding from trade; as commercial benefits or profits.

Commercially

COMMERCIALLY, adverb In a commercial view.

Commigrate

COMMIGRATE, verb intransitive To migrate together; to move in a body from one country or place to another for permanent residence.

Commigration

COMMIGRATION, noun The moving of a body of people from one country or place to another with a view to permanent residence.

Commination

COMMINATION, noun

1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

2. The recital of Gods threatenings on stated days; an office in the Liturgy of the Church of England, appointed to be read on Ash Wednesday or on the first day of Lent.

Comminatory

COMMINATORY, adjective Threatening; denouncing punishment.

Commingle

COMMINGLE, verb transitive To mix together; to mingle in one mass, or intimately; to blend. [See Mingle.]

COMMINGLE, verb intransitive To mix or unite together, as different substances.

Comminuate

COMMINUATE, verb transitive To grind.

Comminuible

COMMINUIBLE, adjective Reducible to powder.

Comminute

COMMINUTE, verb transitive To make small or fine; to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder, by breaking, pounding, rasping, or grinding; to pulverize; to triturate; to levigate. It is chiefly or wholly applied to substances, not liquid.

Comminuted

COMMINUTED, participle passive Reduced to fine particles; pulverized; triturated.

Comminuting

COMMINUTING, participle present tense Reducing to fine particles; pulverizing; levigating.

Comminution

COMMINUTION, noun

1. The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization.

2. Attenuation; as comminution of spirits.

Commiserable

COMMISERABLE, adjective [See Commiserate.] Deserving of commiseration or pity; pitiable; that may excite sympathy or sorrow.

This commiserable person, Edward.

Commiserate

COMMISERATE, verb transitive

1. To pity; to compassionate; to feel sorrow, pain or regret for another in distress; applied to persons.

We should commiserate those who groan beneath the weight of age, disease or want.

2. To regret; to pity; to be sorry for; as, to commiserate our mutual ignorance.

Commiserated

COMMISERATED, participle passive Pitied.

Commiserating

COMMISERATING, participle present tense Pitying; compassionating; feeling sorrow for.

Commiseration

COMMISERATION, noun Pity; compassion; a sympathetic suffering of pain or sorrow for the wants, afflictions or distresses of another.

I cannot think of these poor deluded creatures, but with commiseration

Commiseratively

COMMISERATIVELY, adverb From compassion.

Commiserator

COMMISERATOR, noun One who pities.

Commissarial

COMMISSARIAL, adjective [See Commissary.] Pertaining to a commissary.

Smollett uses commissorial; but this is not regular nor authorized.

Commissariate

COMMISSARIATE, noun The office or employment of a commissary; or the whole body of officers in the commissarys department.

Commissary

COMMISSARY, noun

1. In general sense, a commissioner; one to whom is committed some charge, duty or office, by a superior power; one who is sent or delegated to execute some office or duty, in the place, or as the representative, of his superior.

2. In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the bishop, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in places of the diocese, so far distant from the episcopal see, that the chancellor cannot call the people to the bishops principal consistory court, without putting them to inconvenience.

3. In a military sense, an officer who has the charge of furnishing provisions, clothing, etc., for an army. Commissaries are distinguished by different names, according to their duties; as commissary-general, who is at the head of the department of supplies, and has under him deputy commissaries, and issuing commissaries; the latter to issue or distribute the supplies.

4. An officer who musters the army, receives and inspects the muster-rolls, and keeps an account of the strength of the army. He is called, the commissary-general of musters. The commissary of horses has the inspection of the artillery horses; and the commissary of stores has charge of all the stores of the artillery.

Commissaryship

COMMISSARYSHIP, noun The office of a commissary.

Commission

COMMISSION, noun

1. The act of committing, doing, performing, or perpetrating; as the commission of a crime.

2. The act of committing or sending to; the act of entrusting, as a charge or duty. Hence,

3. The thing committed, entrusted or delivered; letters patent, or any writing from proper authority, given to a person as his warrant for exercising certain powers, or the performance of any duty, whether civil, ecclesiastical, or military. Hence,

4. Charge; order; mandate; authority given.

He bore his great commission in his look.

5. By a metonymy, a number of persons joined in an office or trust.

6. The state of that which is entrusted, as the great seal was put into commission; or the state of being authorized to act or perform service, as a ship is put into commission

7. In commerce, the state of acting under authority in the purchase and sale of goods for another. To trade or do business on commission is to buy or sell for another by this authority. Hence,

8. The allowance made to a factor or commission-merchant for transacting business, which is a certain rate per cent. of the value of the goods bought or sold.

COMMISSION of bankruptcy, is a commission issuing from the Chancellor in Great Britain, and in other countries, from some proper authority, appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupts lands and effects for the creditors.

COMMISSION of lunacy, is a commission issuing from the court of chancery, to authorize an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not.

COMMISSION-officer, in the army or navy, is an officer who has a commission in distinction from subaltern officers.

Commission-Merchan

COMMISSION-MERCHANT, n. A merchant who transacts business as the agent of other men, in buying and selling, and receives a rate per cent. as his commission or reward.

Commissional

COMMISSIONAL,

COMMISSIONARY, adjective Appointed by warrant.

Commissionary

COMMISSIONARY, a. Appointed by warrant.

Commissioned

COMMISSIONED, participle passive Furnished with a commission; empowered; authorized.