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Show cCoM CO CoO underftanding and the will I thought that all things had been favage here South And therefore put I on the countenanc Comma'nND. 7. /. [from the verb. 1. The right of commanding; power ; fupreme authority. It is ufed in militar That very lapidary himfelf, with a coming fto mach, and in the cock's place, would have mad L'Efirange . the cock's choice That he had been fo affe@ionate a hufband, wa 3. By way of eminence, the precepts o the decalogue given by God to Mofes And he wrote upon the tables the words of th civil life : with owver On morning wings how a¢tive {prings the mind covenant, and the ten commandments Exodusy, xxxiv. 28 Take pity of your town and of your people While yet my foldiers are in my command Shakefpeare's Henry V With lightning fill her awful hand And make the clouds feem all at her command Waller He affumed an abfolute command over his readers Dryden How eafy every labour it purfues How coming to the poet ev'ry mufe ! Pope's Horace 2. Future; to come Praife of great a&s he {catters, as a fee Which may the like in coming ages breed. Rofcom Comi'riaL. adj. [comitia, Lat. an affemRelating to th bly of the Romans. affemblies of the people of Rome Co''mity. n /. [comitas, Latin.] Cour- Dig tefy ; civility ; good-breeding Co'mma. n. fo [#oppa. CoMMA'NDRESS. 7. /. [from commander. A woman vefted with fupreme autho To preferibe the order of doing in all things, i a peculiar prerogative, which wifdom hath, as queen or fovereign commandrefs, over all other yirtues HookerBe you commandrefs therafore, princefs, quee and force may often create, but ca Of all our forces, be thy word a law never cure, an averfion; and whatever any one i brought to by compulfion, he will leave as foon a he can Locke on Education uttered; order given Go val whereby a femitone or a perfe&t ton It isa ter ufed only in theorical mufick, to fhew th t giv order to Comma'nDER =- Shakefpeare We will facrifice to the Lord our God, as he fhal gommand us Exodus, viiie 27 Whatever hypocrites aufterely tal Of purity, and place, and innocence - Defaming as impure what God declare Pure, and commands to {ome, leaves free to all Our maker bids increafe : who bids abftai But our deftroyer, foe to God and man Milton long The gloflocomium mander commonl is of ufe in the moft ftron and wher 4. To overlook ; to have {o fubje@ a that it may be feen or annoyed That which is daily offered in the church, is daily: commemoration of that one facrifice offered o the crofs Taylor St. Auftin believed that the martyrs, when th commemoratisns were made at their own fepulchres did join their prayers with the churches, in behal of thofe who there put up their fupplications to Ged Stilling flect Commemoration was formerly made, with thankf{giving, in honour of good men departed this world. Ayliffe's Parergen The annual offering of the Pafchal lamb was commemorative of that firft Pafchal lamb _Arterb The original ufe of facrifice was commenarativ of the original revelation ; a fort of daily memoria called the comtough bodies Wifeman's Surgery. ComMa'NDERY. 7 [ [from command. A body of the knights of Malta, belonging to the fame nation CoMMA'NDMENT. 7 [ [commandement French. Whofe height commands as fubject all the vale To fee the fight Shakefp. Troilus and Creffida His eye might there command wherever ftoo - "City, of old or modern fame,- the fea Of mightieft empire Milton One fide cofmands a view of the fineft garden i ~ the world Addiforn's Guardian CoMME MORATIVE. adj. [from commemorate.] Tending to preferve memory o any thing the luxation hath been of long conti nuance Up to the Eaftern tower or record of what God declared, and man believed Forbes 72 COMME'NCE ‘Why hath it given me earneft of fuccefs Commencing in a truth Shakefpeare's Macketh Man Hooker Say, you chofe him more after our commandment Thofe he commands move only in command Than guided by your ow By the eafy commandmen to forbear to feed thereon affeétions Shake[peare's Coriolanus by God given to Adam it pleafed God to mak trlalof his obedicnce, Baligh's Hiflory of th W orid. confciou of his immortality, cannot b without concern: for that fat after this life They plainly require fome {pecial commandmen for that which 1s exacted at their hands «. 7. [commencer, Ex. 1. To begin; to take beginning 1. Mandate; command; order; precept 8. 'Folead as a general "o Comma'np., w. 'To have the fu. preme authority ; to poflefs the chie JPOWEr; t0 gOVEID ofte Moxon 3. An inftrument of {urgery If the firong cane fupport thy walking hand Chairmen no longer fhall the wall command Gay's Trivia Shakefpeare's Macherh to ufe in both hands if we commemorate it; we fhall rejoic Fiddes CommEMoORA‘TION. 7 /. [from commemorate.] An a& of public celebration folemnization of the memory of an thing 2. A paving beetle, or a very great woode mallet, with an handle about three foo 3. .To have in power Nothing in love morate 5 and in the Lord adventured rather as foldiers than as commanders Hayward Sir Phelim O'Neil appeared as their commande in chief Clarendon Supreme commander both of fea and land Waller The heroick attion of fome great commander enterprifed for the common good, and honour o the Chriftian caufe Dryden Their great commanders, by credit in their armies, fel] into the fcales as a counterpoife to th people Swift con Miller adj. [from commemoto be mentioned wit Such is the divine mercy which we now comme Bacon's Apophthegms and Francis of France Latin. lemnly their army, and ftyled them, My foldiers My confcience bids me afk, wherefore you hav Commanded of me thefe moft pois'nous compounds authority ; The Romans, when commanders in war, {pake t 0/d Song trary to probibit [from command. I have given him for a leader and commander t the people Ifaiah; lv. 4 Henry [commelina honour ; worthy to be kept in remembrance 7o CoMME 'MORATE: w. a. [con and memoro, Latin,] 'To preferve the memor by fome publick aét; to celebrate fo We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee Love thee as our commander and our king Shak Charles 7. f A plant ComME'MORABLE rate,] Defervin general ; a leader ; a chief The queen commands, and we'll obey 2. Toorder ; to direft to be done 2 1. He that has the fuprem Should he, who was thy lord, command thee no . With a barfh voice, and fupercilious brow To fervile dutles Dryden's Perf. Sat. 5 Co'MMELINE The fteepy ftand Which overlooks the vale with wide command Dryden's A neid t Decay of Piety Opver the hills, and far away CommaTeRIALITY. %, /. [from comma- terial.] Refemblance to fomething i its matter any place Obeying with my wind when I do blow And yielding to another when it blows Commanded always by the greater guft Such is the lightnefs of you common men Shakefpeare's Henry V1 Chrift could command legions of angels to hi terial, but merely heterogeneal towards the body t be preferved Bacon 4. The power of overlooking or furveyin Look, this feather and left that comman Dryden hold 1n fubjetion or obedience : correlative to obey refcue fo commanded The body adjacent and ambient is not comma Glide thro' the gloomy fhade, and leaye the main exaét proportions between concords. Har 7o COMMA'ND. . a. [commander, Fr mando, Lat. 1. T govern Bacon Sole daughter of his voice Milton's Parad. Loff As there is no prohibition of it, fo no comman for it Taylor ‘The captain gives command, the joyful trai 2. The ninth part of a tone, or the inter exceeds the imperfeét tone The beaks in birds are commaterial with teeth Of this tree we may not tafte nor touch Commas and points they fet exactly right. Pope Fuairfax CommaTE RIAL. adj. [from con and materin.] Confifting of the fame matte with another thing 1. The point which notes the diftin@ion of 3. The a& of commanding ; the mandat claufes, and order of conftru&ion, in th fentence3 marked thus [,] v rity 2. Cogent authority; defpotifm Comman Shakefp. As you like it Of ftern commandment affairs, as magiftracy or government i Dryden no ill argument to the coming dowager 2, Authority; coaétive power Thofe two "¢ommanding powers of the foul, th Now will I be your Rofalind in 2 more t'omx'{r on difpofition3 and, afkk me what you will, I wil Shakefpeare grant it 2. To take a new chara&er that is to commenc Rogers If wit fo much from ign'rance undergo 7 Ah ! let not learning too commence its foe! CoMME'NCE w a T begin Pope t make a begining of ;. as, ¢e commenc juit M |