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Commence

Commence (commence)
v. i.(?)
Com*mence"
[imp. *** p. p. Commenced (?)] 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.

    Here the anthem doth commence.
    Shak.

    His heaven commences ere the world be past.
    Goldsmith.

  2. To begin to be, or to act as.
    [Archaic]

    We commence judges ourselves.
    Coleridge.

  3. To take a degree at a university.
    [Eng.]

    I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.
    Fuller.

Commence

Commence (commence)
v. t.
Com*mence"
  1. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

    Many a wooer doth commence his suit.
    Shak.

    * 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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