CPage 300
- English Word Commission Definition The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
- English Word Commission Definition To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
- English Word Commission Definition To send out with a charge or commission.
- English Word Commissional Definition Alt. of Commissionary
- English Word Commissionary Definition Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
- English Word Commissionate Definition To commission
- English Word Commissioned Definition of Commission
- English Word Commissioner Definition A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.
- English Word Commissioner Definition An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
- English Word Commissioning Definition of Commission
- English Word Commissionnaire Definition An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
- English Word Commissionnaire Definition One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
- English Word Commissionship Definition The office of commissioner.
- English Word Commissive Definition Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.
- English Word Commissural Definition Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- English Word Commissure Definition A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
- English Word Commissure Definition The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
- English Word Commissure Definition A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
- English Word Commissure Definition The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
- English Word Commit Definition To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- English Word Commit Definition To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- English Word Commit Definition To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- English Word Commit Definition To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- English Word Commit Definition To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- English Word Commit Definition To confound.
- English Word Commit Definition To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
- English Word Commitment Definition The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
- English Word Commitment Definition A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
- English Word Commitment Definition The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
- English Word Commitment Definition A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.