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erval (the difference beyween a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillu…

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.)

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.

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 frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.

Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.

Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.

Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.

A myotome.