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To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. Many a wooer doth commence his suit. Shak.

between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. Hume.

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South.

n a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland…

One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

ure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak.

These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

Act of completing or perfecting; completion. [Obs.] Dryden.

omplicated; involved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.

and composure." Milton. When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. I. Watts.

meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.

ld relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

Affected wit; a conceit. Chesterfield.

To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] Bacon.

ondignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

ty is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay.