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(), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Commenced (); p. pr. & vb. n.Commencing.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- + initiare to begin. See Initiate.] 1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. Fuller. Commence" v. t.To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. Many a wooer doth commence his suit. Shak. It is the practice of good writers to use the verbal noun (instead of the infinitive with to) after commence; as, he commenced studying, not he commenced to study. スポンサード リンク
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