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absolutely
accessory
ad
add
adjure
admiral
adultery
aga
all-commanding
ambitious
amphibia
amphibial
any
appoint
appointment
apprise
arbiter
as
ascendant
at
attaching
attachment
authority
away
awe-commanding
baal
beauty
beck
beg
behave
behest
behight
behold
bid
bidding
binding
body
brief
brigade
brigadier
bulletin
business
butcher
cabin
call
captain
captaincy
captainry
captainship
caption
cash
castellan
centurion
cessation
character
charge
charged
charging
cherub
chief
chieftain
collect
colonel
color
command
commandable
commandant
commandatory
commanded
commander
commandery
commandingly
commandment
commandning
commandress
commandry
commodore
company
compliance
comply
comprehend
conclusion
concupiscence
condescend
condescension
conduct
conducted
conducting
conductor
consistently
continence
continency
control
controll
controllable
convention
coronel
corporalship
council
countermand
countermanding
county
covenant
crier
crime
critical
critically
decadal
decade
decadence
decadency
decagon
decagram
decagyn
decagynian
decahedral
decahedron
decaliter
decalogist
decalogue
decurion
defeat
demand
derange
designate
designation
devolve
dictate
did
diligently
direct
directorial
disapprove
disengage
disobedience
disobedient
disobey
dispatch
dispensation
dispense
displeasure
distringas
division
do
doom
down
dream
edict
embalm
emperor
enchanter
end
enjoin
enjoined
enjoinment
enomotarch
enough
entitle
excellently
exert
expel
extent
faithful
feel
fellow-soldier
fiat
field-marshal
field-staff
flank
flanked
flanker
fluent
follow
follower
forbearance
forbid
forbiddance
front
frown
full
furlow
general
generalissimo
generalship
give
godliness
godly
good
govern
greatness
hant
head
headquarters
hearing
herald
heretoch
herself
hest
hist
hoist
if
image
immorality
imperate
imperative
imperatively
imperatorial
imperial
imperious
imperiously
imperiousness
impiety
impose
imposing
impotent
independent
infer
inform
injunction
instruct
instruction
investment
issue
join
jollity
judgment
justification
keep
law
lay
lead
leader
lest
let
lochage
mainprize
major-general
manage
mandamus
mandate
mandatory
mandment
mareschal
marshal
massacre
master
mastery
mate
mendicant
menpleaser
mighty
ministerial
ministrant
mirador
mistress
mittimus
mode
moneyed
monopolize
more
mount
mum
muse
mutiny
myriarch
navarch
nisiprius
nod
noted
novel
obedience
obedient
obediential
obediently
obey
obeyed
obeying
obligation
obsequious
observe
occasion
office
officer
on
opinion
order
ordered
ordering
ordinance
out
ovation
paralysis
partisan
pashaw
pass-parole
patron
peace
pentacoster
peremptory
permit
pious
piratical
pleasure
positive
possess
possession
power
precept
preceptive
precipe
precipient
prefect
prefecture
presence
press
press-gang
presumptuous
prevent
primarily
proffer
prohibit
prohibition
promise
promptitude
propretor
province
pursuance
quarter
raise
rash
reference
refuse
regiment
religion
religiously
repeat
reseize
respectability
respectable
restraint
review
righteous
room
roster
rule
run
sabbath-breaking
sabbatical
say
scarp
secrecy
seduction
seraskier
servant
serve
service
serviceableness
several
shall
shipmaster
sign
signify
sin
slavery
slight
sorcery
soul
spring
staff
stand
statute
stay
strength
strictly
stubborn
subject
submission
subpena
subserve
subside
such
sultan
summon
summons
supersedeas
superstition
superstitiously
supreme
suspension
swell
swerve
table
take
taxiarch
teach
tell
temerity
thus
tradition
transgression
transgressor
trespass
tribune
trierarch
troop
truce
truncheon
truth
tye
unable
unbidden
uncommanded
uncomplying
unfortunate
ungodliness
ungodly
unimposing
unkept
unlucky
unofficially
unreserved
up
verb
vice-admiral
vice-chamberlain
vice-legate
violate
violation
voice
walk
wander
ward
which
whole
wield
wielded
will
wisdom
wise
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writ
write



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1828 Definition

COMMAND, v.t.

1. To bid; to order; to direct; to charge; implying authority, and power to control, and to require obedience.

We will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us. Ex. 8.

I know that he [Abraham] will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Gen. 18.

2. To govern, lead or direct; to have or to exercise supreme authority over.

Lord Wellington commanded an army in Spain; he commanded the army at the battle of Waterloo.

3. To have in power; to be able to exercise power or authority over; as, a military post commands the surrounding country; a fort commands the harbor.

4. To overlook, or have in the power of the eye, without obstruction.

One side commands a view of the finest garden in the world.

5. To direct; to send.

The Lord shall command the blessing on thee. Deut. 28.

The Lord will command his loving kindness. Ps. 43.

6. To have or to exercise a controlling influence over.

A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.

COMMAND, v.i. To have or to exercise supreme authority; to possess the chief power; to govern; as, the general commands with dignity and humanity. What general commands in Canada?

COMMAND, n.

1. The right or power of governing with chief or exclusive authority; supreme power; control; as, an officer has a brigade under his command; he takes command of the army in France; an appropriate military term.

2. The power of controlling; governing influence; sway.

He assumed an absolute command over his readers.

3. Cogent or absolute authority.

Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion.

4. The act of commanding; the mandate uttered; order given.

The captain gives command.

5. The power of overlooking, or surveying, without obstruction.

The steepy strand, Which overlooks the vale with wide command.

6. The power of governing or controlling by force, or of defending and protecting.

The fortress has complete command of the port.

7. That which is commanded control; as a body of troop under command.
1913 Definition
Command (command)
v. t.(?; 61)
Com*mand"
[imp. *** p. p. Commanded] p. pr. *** vb. n. Commanding.] [OE. comaunden, commanden, OF. comander, F. commander, fr. L. com- + mandare to commit to, to
  1. To order with authority] to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

    We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
    Bacon.

    Go to your mistress:
    Say, I command her come to me.
    Shak.

  2. To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.

    Monmouth commanded the English auxiliaries.
    Macaulay.

    Such aid as I can spare you shall command.
    Shak.

  3. To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.

    Bridges commanded by a fortified house.
    Motley.

    Up to the eastern tower,
    Whose height commands as subject all the vale.
    Shak.

    One side commands a view of the finest garden.
    Addison.

  4. To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.

    'Tis not in mortals to command success.
    Addison.

  5. To direct to come; to bestow.
    [Obs.]

    I will command my blessing upon you.
    Lev. xxv. 21.

    Syn. -- To bid; order; direct; dictate; charge; govern; rule; overlook.

  6. To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.

    And reigned, commanding in his monarchy.
    Shak.

    For the king had so commanded concerning [Haman].
    Esth. iii. 2.

  7. To have a view, as from a superior position.

    Far and wide his eye commands.
    Milton.

  8. An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.

    Awaiting what command their mighty chief
    Had to impose.
    Milton.

  9. The possession or exercise of authority.

    Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion.
    Locke.

  10. Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
  11. Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.

    The steepy stand
    Which overlooks the vale with wide command.
    Dryden.

  12. Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.

    He assumed an absolute command over his readers.
    Dryden.

  13. A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.

    Word of command (Mil.), a word or phrase of definite and established meaning, used in directing the movements of soldiers; as, aim; fire; shoulder arms, etc.

    Syn. -- Control; sway; power; authority; rule; dominion; sovereignty; mandate; order; injunction; charge; behest. See Direction.


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There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet.
  




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