Definition of commission

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Commission (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties..

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Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
Noncommissioned :: Noncommissioned (a.) Not having a commission.
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander..
Commissioned :: Commissioned (imp. & p. p.) of Commissio.
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..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..
Errand :: Errand (n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere..
Give :: Give (n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
Roughrider :: Roughrider (n.) One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating..
Caption :: Caption (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed..
Brevet :: Brevet (a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission..
Cornetcy :: Cornetcy (n.) The commission or rank of a cornet.
Depute :: Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Cadet :: Cadet (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission..
Dedimus :: Dedimus (n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc..
Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
Receiptment :: Receiptment (n.) The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony..
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