COMMISSION (2)

commission (2)|commissionate. Commission, or Commissionate, v.t. to empower, authorize, intrust, appoint, depute, delegate

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Com‐mis″sion (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commissioned (?); p. pr & vb. n. Commissioning.] 1. 1. To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
2. 2. To send out with a charge or commission.
A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian land. Dryden. Syn. — To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate; constitute; ordain.