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1 definition found 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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