Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To commission; authorize; appoint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To commission.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To commission.

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Examples

  • So that, were I undertaking to discipline such a breechless mob, it were impossible for me to be understood; and if I were understood, judge ye, my lord, what chance I had of being obeyed among a band of half salvages, who are accustomed to pay to their own lairds and chiefs, allenarly, that respect and obedience whilk ought to be paid to commissionate officers.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • Helen Drummond, spouse to Colonel James Ferguson as commissionate by him 200

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • So that, were I undertaking to discipline such a breechless mob, it were impossible for me to be understood; and if I were understood, judge ye, my lord, what chance I had of being obeyed among a band of half salvages, who are accustomed to pay to their own lairds and chiefs, allenarly, that respect and obedience whilk ought to be paid to commissionate officers.

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • In great uncertainty, and not a little confusion, the commissionate body hied from the Princess Irene to the cistern.

    The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

  • So that, were I undertaking to discipline such a breechless mob, it were impossible for me to be understood; and if I were understood, judge ye, my lord, what chance I had of being obeyed among a band of half salvages, who are accustomed to pay to their own lairds and chiefs, allenarly, that respect and obedience whilk ought to be paid to commissionate officers.

    A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

  • Heaven and Earth, 1 therefore authorize and commissionate, yea, and command you to go and teach all Nations, &c.

    Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712

  • Almighty, Divine Being has this prerogative to make use of what Instrument he pleaseth, in Afflicting any, and consequently to commissionate Devils: And tho this word commissioning, in the Authors former Books, might be thought to be by inadvertency; yet now after he hath been caution'd of it, still to persist in it seems highly Criminal.

    "More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1693

  • Una delle clip commissionate dall’agenzia Dixon Baxi per la messa a lucido di Five, un canale TV del Regno Unito.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Five: Food Chain 2008

  • JUS GENTIUM, as weel as the law of arms, in the person of the commissionate. "

    A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

  • AH the inhabitants, from sixteen to sixty years, in each toH-D, are by tlie law and custom of the country to bear arms if occasion shiill so require; and that they may be 6t to do so, they have in each town and village their traimog days eiglit times every year, wherein they are exercised in military discipline, that so they may be ex - pert Id war whenever his present majesty shall see cause to commissionate them thereunto.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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