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Commander :: Commander (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army..

Mandamus :: Mandamus (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty..

Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .

Myriarch :: Myriarch (n.) A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

Burggrave :: Burggrave (n.) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command..

Barrier :: Barrier (n.) A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach..

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To oppose; to revoke the command of.

Temerity :: Temerity (n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war..

Commanding :: Commanding (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer..

Caravel :: Caravel (n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage..

Agha :: Agha (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect..

Admiral :: Admiral (n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets..

Tycoon :: Tycoon (n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners..

Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..

Privateer :: Privateer (n.) The commander of a privateer.

Imperatorial :: Imperatorial (a.) Commanding; imperative; authoritative.

Commandment :: Commandment (n.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

Mandate :: Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation..

Fieri Facias :: Fieri facias () A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed..

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