Definition of commission

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Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating..

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Justice :: "Justice (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice..
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..
Private :: Private (n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
Commissary :: Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner..
Depute :: Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Brevet :: Brevet (n.) A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.
Abet :: Abet (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense..
Dedimus :: Dedimus (n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..
Husbandage :: Husbandage (n.) The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
Send :: Send (v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger..
Wardroom :: Wardroom (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.
Commissional :: Commissional (a.) Alt. of Commissionar.
Refer :: Refer (v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal..
Mandate :: Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating..
Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..
Legacy :: Legacy (n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like..
Cadetship :: Cadetship (n.) The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship..
Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
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