Definition of commission

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Commission (v. t.) To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer..

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Commissionate :: Commissionate (v. t.) To commissio.
Dedimus :: Dedimus (n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc..
Accessary :: Accessary (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense..
Justice :: "Justice (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice..
Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
Recommission :: Recommission (v. t.) To commission again; to give a new commission to.
Commission :: Commission (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city..
Penalty :: Penalty (n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass..
Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..
Husbandage :: Husbandage (n.) The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
Warrantable :: Warrantable (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable..
Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..
Return :: Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
Delegation :: Delegation (n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation..
Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..
Consistory :: Consistory (n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
Subligation :: Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank..
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