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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commence \Com*mence"\, 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.
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