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Definition of Commencements
1. commencement [n] - See also: commencement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commencements
Literary usage of Commencements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use of Both of the by Francis Wharton (1881)
"commencements AND CONCLUSIONS IN THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS. ... This is
illustrated by the forms of commencements and conclusions given in the text. ..."
2. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"Times for holding commencements. All-day affairs. the person with whom he ...
The time of holding commencements at Harvard varied between 1642 to 1714, ..."
3. The American Colleges and Universities in the Great War, 1914-1919: A History by Charles Franklin Thwing (1920)
"The commencements of 1918 and of 1919 were impressive in the depleted classes
that came up for their degrees. In one college at least, Hobart, ..."
4. Studies in Terrestrial Magnetism by Charles Chree (1912)
"Whether the " sudden commencements " at different stations are simultaneous ...
Sudden commencements " are far from instantaneous, lasting usually several ..."
5. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"commencements OF PLEAS. In the Queen's Bench, [or " CP" or " Exch. of Pleas."]
On the day of , AD . (u) D. •) The said defendant by YZ, his attorney, ..."
6. The Never-ceasing Search by Francis Otto Schmitt (1990)
"Retirements Can Also Be commencements My birthday was celebrated at NRP on two
occasions: on 23 November 1968, my sixty-fifth birthday, and on 28 October ..."
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