commence : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: commence	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for commence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commence v take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" Synonym(s): get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence Antonym(s): end, terminate set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" Synonym(s): begin, lead off, start, commence Antonym(s): end, terminate get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack" Synonym(s): start, start up, embark on, commence
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commence \Commence"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commenced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commencing}.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- + initiare to begin. See {Initiate}.] 1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. --Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence* judges ourselves. --Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commence \Commence"\, v. t. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. Many a wooer doth commence* his suit. --Shak. Note: It is the practice of good writers to use the verbal noun (instead of the infinitive with to) after commence; as, he commenced studying, not he commenced to study.