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ome on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. "They shall come out with great substance." Gen. xv.

Assistance; relief; support. [Obs. except in the phrase "aid and comfort." See 5 below.] Shak.

To have a view, as from a superior position. Far and wide his eye commands. Milton.

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. A leader and commander to the people. Is. lv. 4.

Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.

to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. Donne.

itary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. Wharton.

A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; -- at Cambrige called a pensioner.

To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. To commune under both kinds. Bp. Burnet. To commune with one's self or one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate.

One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.

To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. The primitive Christians communicated every day. Jer. Taylor.

Participation in the Lord's supper. Bp. Pearson.

The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion. Close communion. See under Close, a. -- Communion elements, the bread and wine used in the celebration of the Lord's supper. -- Communion service, the celeb…

A supporter of the commune of Paris.

in a system. The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth. Eph. iv. 16.

, less windy, are all comparatives. In comparatives is expressed a relation of two; as in superlatives there is a relation of many.

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "mos…