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Definition of Commence

1. Verb. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. "They commence moving "; "Let's get down to work now"

2. Verb. Set in motion, cause to start. "Begin a new chapter in your life"

3. Verb. Get off the ground. "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"

Definition of Commence

1. v. i. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

2. v. t. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

Definition of Commence

1. Verb. (transitive) To begin, start. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commence

1. to begin [v -MENCED, -MENCING, -MENCES] - See also: begin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commence

commemorable commemorate commemorated commemorates commemorating commemoration commemorations commemorative commemorative sign commemoratively

commemoratives commemorator commemorators commemoratory commemorial commence (current term) commenced commencement commencement ceremony commencement day

commencement exercise commencements commencer commencers commences commencest commenceth commencing commend commendable

Literary usage of Commence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"John Low, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. ..."

2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Upon being admitted, they commence the performance of the following drama, which has already been printed in Tale» and Traditions of Tenby. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"tember, 1869, the United States having lur- nished materials sufficient to commence the construction of said piers and abutments, the petitioners requested ..."

4. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"Period at which the first Symptoms commence.—The time when the symptoms commence is occasionally of importance from a forensic point of view. ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"However that may be, it is obvious that the inscription is intended to commence, in the ordinary way, with time king's name ; and that it is to be read, ..."

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