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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commission \Com*mis"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commissioned};
p. pr & vb n. {Commissioning}.]
1. 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.
2. To send out with a charge or commission.
A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian
land. --Dryden.
Syn: To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate;
constitute; ordain.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
commissioned
adj 1: of military officers; holding by virtue of a commission a
rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above [ant: {noncommissioned}]
2: given official approval to act "an accredited college";
"commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist"; "authorized
representative" [syn: {accredited}, {licensed}, {licenced}]
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