Definition of commence

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Commence (v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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Zero :: Zero (n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences..
Principle :: Principle (n.) Beginning; commencement.
Renew :: Renew (v. t.) To begin again; to recommence.
Recommencement :: Recommencement (n.) A commencement made anew.
Nonability :: Nonability (n.) An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit..
Inchoation :: Inchoation (n.) Act of beginning; commencement; inception.
Deal :: Deal (n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack..
Magnificat :: Magnificat (n.) The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate..
Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..
Incito-motor :: Incito-motor (a.) Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor..
Start :: Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business..
Begin :: Begin (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start..
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement..
Begin :: Begin (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
Original :: Original (n.) Origin; commencement; source.
Miserere :: Miserere (n.) The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere..
Frimaire :: Frimaire (n.) The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire..
Initial :: Initial (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease..
Childhood :: Childhood (n.) The commencement; the first period.
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