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COMMISSIONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Given official approval to act
Example:
authorized representative
Synonyms:
accredited; commissioned; licenced; licensed
Classified under:
Similar:
authorised; authorized (endowed with authority)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above
Classified under:
Antonym:
noncommissioned ((of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb commission
Context examples:
Some of the more observant of the crowd had glanced suspiciously at this advancing figure, but the majority had not observed him at all until he reined up his horse upon a knoll which overlooked the amphitheatre, and in a stentorian voice announced that he represented the Custos rotulorum of His Majesty’s county of Sussex, that he proclaimed this assembly to be gathered together for an illegal purpose, and that he was commissioned to disperse it by force, if necessary.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was commanded up to Monday night by James Barclay, a gallant veteran, who started as a full private, was raised to commissioned rank for his bravery at the time of the Mutiny, and so lived to command the regiment in which he had once carried a musket.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
