Definition of command

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Command (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge..

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Strategy :: Strategy (n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship..
Commandatory :: Commandatory (a.) Mandatory; as, commandatory authority..
Mainprise :: Mainprise (n.) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete..
Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..
Gospelize :: Gospelize (v. t.) To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us..
Bridgehead :: Bridgehead (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont..
Precent :: Precent (n.) A command in writing; a species of writ or process.
Subpoenal :: Subpoena (v. t.) To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience..
Commandment :: Commandment (n.) An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.
Rash :: Rash (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander..
Waywode :: Waywode (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers..
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent..
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 (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to..
Command :: Command (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
Godly :: Godly (n.) Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life..
Shipmaster :: Shipmaster (n.) The captain, master, or commander of a ship..
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..
Direction :: Direction (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants..
Adelantado :: Adelantado (n.) A governor of a province; a commander.
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