Definition of Commenced

1. Verb. (past of ''commence'') ¹

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Definition of Commenced

1. commence [v] - See also: commence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commenced

commemorate
commemorated
commemorates
commemorating
commemoration
commemorations
commemorative
commemorative sign
commemoratively
commemoratives
commemorator
commemorators
commemoratory
commemorial
commence
commenced (current term)
commencement
commencement ceremony
commencement day
commencement exercise
commencements
commencer
commencers
commences
commencest
commenceth
commencing
commend
commendable
commendableness

Literary usage of Commenced

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The London Gazette was not commenced till Feb. 5, 1666. ... The Times was in reality commenced by the grandfather of the present chief proprietor, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In St. Mary Major's the "Coronation of The Blessed Virgin" was commenced at the conclusion of the thirteenth and completed early in the fourteenth century; ..."

3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1895)
"In Kentucky an action is deemed commenced at the date of the first summons or process issued in good faith from the court or tribunal having jurisdiction of ..."

4. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"... proceedings commenced under the Constitution on the first Wednesday, being the 4th day of March, 1789, by the meeting of the Senators and ..."

5. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"BC 420. alliance about the end of winter and the beginning of V. spring. The Boeotians at once commenced the demolition of ..."

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