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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
commence
v 1: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We
began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as
soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to
arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's
get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get,
start out, start, set about, set out, commence]
[ant: end, terminate]
2: set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the
Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new
chapter in your life" [syn: begin, lead off, start,
commence] [ant: end, terminate]
3: get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked
on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good
breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon
session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the
partisans launched a surprise attack" [syn: start, start
up, embark on, commence]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Commence \Com*mence"\, v. t.
To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
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Many a wooer doth commence his suit. --Shak.
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Note: It is the practice of good writers to use the verbal
noun (instead of the infinitive with to) after
commence; as, he commenced studying, not he commenced
to study.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Commence \Com*mence"\ (k[o^]m*m[e^]ns"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Commenced (k[o^]m*m[e^]nst"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Commencing.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- +
initiare to begin. See Initiate.]
1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to
begin.
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Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak.
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His heaven commences ere the world be past.
--Goldsmith.
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2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic]
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We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge.
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3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.]
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I question whether the formality of commencing was
used in that age. --Fuller.
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Thesaurus Results for commence:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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