commence

• “Nevertheless, his book carries in it a certain large suggestion; it contains many excellent observations; its tone is unexceptionable; the style is firm and clear, though heavy and disfigured by such intolerable barbarisms as "commence to" walk, talk, or the like, -- the use of the infinitive instead of the participle after _commence_.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864

• “Donaghy, who pleaded guilty in New York to conspiracy to engage in wire fraud and transmitting betting information through interstate commence, is serving a 15-month sentence.”

  Former NBA ref Donaghy attacked in prison

• “Legal interpretation of the Geneva Conventions did commence from the higher levels of the administration.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Senator Graham on Torture and the Geneva Convention:

• “When does the presidential term commence and expire?”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “Kennedy went out on one of these vessels, in which he had not long been at sea before he joined in a conspiracy some of the rest had formed of seizing the vessel, putting those to death who refused to come into their measures, and then to go, as the sailors phrase it, "upon the account", that is in plain English, commence pirates.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “At all events, since I have accepted his kind invitation, all I have to say before I commence, is that this is a very, very dry subject.”

  Disarmament

• “Jane Grey, public documents in her name commence only with the latter date.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “These two years commence from the end of the three months which he spent in the synagogue (v. 8); after they were ended, he continued for some time in the country about, preaching; therefore he might justly reckon it in all three years, as he does, ch. xx.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “As soon as Mr Norton found I had this legacy, and six months before I received one farthing from it, he wrote that he could no longer pay me the sum secured (as I imagined) by the deed of agreement we both had signed; and he begged to inquire what deduction I myself would propose in my allowance, – "such deduction to commence from the time that I should receive any money under my mother's will.”

  English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century

• “The vital motions, as suppose of the heart and arterial system, commence from the irritation occasioned by the stimulus of the blood, and then have this irritation assisted by the power of association; at the same time an agreeable sensation is produced by the due actions of the fibres, as in the secretions of the glands, which constitutes the pleasure of existence; this agreeable sensation is intermixed between every link of this diurnal chain of actions, and contributes to produce it by what is termed animal causation.”

  Note VII

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