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A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. [R.] So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. South.

A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation…

ers, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. Burke.

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

Complimentary. [R.] Boswell.

A bringing together. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

The act of drinking or tippling together. [R.] The fashion of compotation. Sir W. Scott.

One who drinks with another. [R.] Pope.

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Bailey.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. [Obs.] "The concitation of humors." Sir T. Browne.

The act of strengthening. [Obs.] Bacon.

Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.

The act or process of confuting; refutation. "For the edification of some and the confutation of others." Bp. Horne.

Adapted or designed to confute. Bp. Warburton

To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply. Hammond.

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Implying an attribute. See Connote. Connotative term, one which denotes a subject and implies an attribute. J. S. Mill.

In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.