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Crime :: Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another..

Branch Pilot :: Branch pilot () A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation..

Commissionship :: Commissionship (n.) The office of commissioner.

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

Discommission :: Discommission (v. t.) To deprive of a commission or trust.

Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.

Commissionary :: Commissionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant..

Striped :: Stripe (n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.

Purser :: Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster..

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander..

Order :: Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large..

Mandate :: Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

Havildar :: Havildar (n.) In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant..

Empower :: Empower (v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor..

Brevet :: Brevet (a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission..

Poundage :: Poundage (n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission..

Gunroom :: Gunroom (n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy..

Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission..

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