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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Commissions

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Commission

COMMISSION, noun

1. The act of committing, doing, performing, or perpetrating; as the commission of a crime.

2. The act of committing or sending to; the act of entrusting, as a charge or duty. Hence,

3. The thing committed, entrusted or delivered; letters patent, or any writing from proper authority, given to a person as his warrant for exercising certain powers, or the performance of any duty, whether civil, ecclesiastical, or military. Hence,

4. Charge; order; mandate; authority given.

He bore his great commission in his look.

5. By a metonymy, a number of persons joined in an office or trust.

6. The state of that which is entrusted, as the great seal was put into commission; or the state of being authorized to act or perform service, as a ship is put into commission

7. In commerce, the state of acting under authority in the purchase and sale of goods for another. To trade or do business on commission is to buy or sell for another by this authority. Hence,

8. The allowance made to a factor or commission-merchant for transacting business, which is a certain rate per cent. of the value of the goods bought or sold.

COMMISSION of bankruptcy, is a commission issuing from the Chancellor in Great Britain, and in other countries, from some proper authority, appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupts lands and effects for the creditors.

COMMISSION of lunacy, is a commission issuing from the court of chancery, to authorize an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not.

COMMISSION-officer, in the army or navy, is an officer who has a commission in distinction from subaltern officers.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Commissional

COMMISSIONAL,

COMMISSIONARY, adjective Appointed by warrant.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Commissioned

COMMISSIONED, participle passive Furnished with a commission; empowered; authorized.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Commissioner

COMMISSIONER, noun A person who has a commission or warrant from proper authority, to perform some office, or execute some business, for the person or government which employs him, and gives him authority; as commissoners for settling the bounds of a state, or for adjusting claims.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Commissioning

COMMISSIONING, participle present tense Giving a commission to; furnishing with a warrant; empowering by letters patent or other writing; authorizing.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Commission-merchant

COMMISSION-MERCHANT, noun A merchant who transacts business as the agent of other men, in buying and selling, and receives a rate per cent. as his commission or reward.

COMMISSION, verb transitive

1. To give a commission to; to empower or authorize by commission. The president and senate appoint, by the president commissions.

2. To send with a mandate or authority.

He fist commissions to the Latian land.

3. To authorize or empower.

Note: Commissionate, in a like sense, has been use, but rarely.