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  • English Word Comminute Definition To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.
  • English Word Comminuted Definition of Comminute
  • English Word Comminuting Definition of Comminute
  • English Word Comminution Definition The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
  • English Word Comminution Definition Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
  • English Word Comminution Definition Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.
  • English Word Commiserable Definition Pitiable.
  • English Word Commiserate Definition To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.
  • English Word Commiserated Definition of Commiserate
  • English Word Commiserating Definition of Commiserate
  • English Word Commiseration Definition The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.
  • English Word Commiserative Definition Feeling or expressing commiseration.
  • English Word Commiserator Definition One who pities.
  • English Word Commissarial Definition Of or pertaining to a commissary.
  • English Word Commissariat Definition The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
  • English Word Commissariat Definition The body of officers charged with such service.
  • English Word Commissaries Definition of Commissary
  • English Word Commissary Definition One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
  • English Word Commissary Definition An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
  • English Word Commissary Definition An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
  • English Word Commissary Definition An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
  • English Word Commissaryship Definition The office or employment of a commissary.
  • English Word Commission Definition The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
  • English Word Commission Definition The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
  • English Word Commission Definition The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
  • English Word Commission Definition A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
  • English Word Commission Definition A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
  • English Word Commission Definition A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
  • English Word Commission Definition The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
  • English Word Commission Definition The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.