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Delegation :: Delegation (n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation..

Branch :: Branch (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters..

Fiaunt :: Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.

Discommission :: Discommission (v. t.) To deprive of a commission or trust.

Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers..

Order :: Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large..

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission..

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority..

Commissioning :: Commissioning (p. pr & vb. n.) of Commissio.

Lieutenancy :: Lieutenancy (n.) The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant..

Privateer :: Privateer (n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque..

Ensign :: Ensign (n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment..

Accomplice :: Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory..

Crime :: Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law..

Ablegate :: Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office..

Corporal :: Corporal (n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels..

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Officer :: Officer (n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer..

Press :: Press (n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy..

Wardroom :: Wardroom (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.

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