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d business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a who…

A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. Let him see our commission. Shak.

That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.

rs in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

parison of hands (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuine, in order to ascertain whether both were written by the same person. Bouvier. Burrill.

To write; to compose. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

so the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.

The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

By confession; without denial. [Written also confessly.]

testimony. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak.

One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton.

r fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also written conjunct.

Enrolled; written; registered. Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the "fathers" the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.

erforms the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also consecrater.]

just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. Fallows.

The writing by which anything is consigned.

One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]