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A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

The common red variety of garnet.

The vegetable casein of almonds.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

e. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge. We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. Bacon. Go to your mistress: Say, I command her come to me. Shak.

Capable of being commanded.

A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.

Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. [Obs.]

(Mil.)

hority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. A leader and commander to the people. Is. lv. 4.

The office of a commander.

The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.]

Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.

In a commanding manner.

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. John xiii. 34.

In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.

See Commandery.

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.