Definition of commence

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Commence (v. i.) To begin to be, or to act as..

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Salutatorian :: Salutatorian (n.) The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship..
Reformation :: Reformation (n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches..
Syncopation :: Syncopate (v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags..
Inception :: Inception (n.) Beginning; commencement; initiation.
Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business..
Commence :: Commence (v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
Original :: Original (n.) Origin; commencement; source.
Open :: Open (v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy..
Initiate :: Initiate (v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
Recommencement :: Recommencement (n.) A commencement made anew.
Initial :: Initial (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease..
Period :: Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet..
Incipiency :: Incipiency (n.) Beginning; commencement; incipient state.
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation..
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..
Principle :: Principle (n.) Beginning; commencement.
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..
Recommence :: Recommence (v. i.) To commence or begin again.
Recommence :: Recommence (v. i.) To begin anew to be; to act again as.
Initiate :: Initiate (a.) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted..
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