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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commence
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ If you haven't been paid, commence action.
▪ In 1988 the plaintiff commenced an action for damages on the ground of negligence against the defendant health authority.
court
▪ Any claim for an amount exceeding £50 000 shall be commenced in the High Court.
▪ In certain circumstances public law proceedings may be commenced in a county court care centre.
▪ As to the former, the usual procedural rules apply depending on whether proceedings are commenced in the High Court or county court.
date
▪ The renewal licence will commence on the date your application is received in the Driver Licensing Central Office.
period
▪ Hatching occurred over a two-month period commencing at the end of June, with most juveniles emerging in mid-July.
▪ These young people will be surveyed by mailed questionnaire on three separate occasions over a two-year period, commencing in spring 1987.
proceeding
▪ The defendant did not commence proceedings against the appellant until 7 March 1988.
▪ P2 would therefore have until 1993 to commence proceedings under the section.
▪ In this case, it must commence formal proceedings.
▪ However, with certain crimes, an affected member of the public may commence criminal proceedings.
▪ A purchaser would have to locate and commence proceedings against all vendors.
▪ It is normal to commence proceedings in the local County Court - e.g. for the recovery of a debt.
week
▪ It is planned to run a second certificate level course during weeks commencing 29 March and 26 April.
▪ Haulms are normally burnt off about two weeks before lifting commences.
work
▪ The Treasury gave permission in 1971 for work to commence and the building operation started in the autumn.
▪ Bloomiehall Park. Work of improvement been commenced. 6.
▪ Here he gained valuable experience and, though occupied with much routine work, commenced innovative research.
▪ There were some practical considerations to be taken into account before the work could actually commence however.
▪ Build for King Edward I, work commencing in 1283 and continuing for approximately four years.
▪ Under Barratt's direction work was soon commenced, though he felt that there was a need for caution.
▪ Building Regulations plans approval £35.25; and £105.75 inspection fees when the work commences.
year
▪ Indeed, there might be little to prevent some of the orders being cancelled when the new year commences.
▪ The post is initially for a period of two years, commencing as soon as possible.
years
▪ The post is initially for a period of two years, commencing as soon as possible.
■ VERB
let
▪ The landscape contract will be let separately and will commence early in 1990.
▪ Try to ensure that there are supporters for each of the choices - then let play commence. 3.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They will commence production in April.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beloved put her fists on her hips and commenced to skip on bare feet.
▪ His face has commenced to take on that same haggard, puzzled look of pressure that the face on the floor has.
▪ In 1891 he began making plans for a road and in 1893 he commenced work.
▪ In the excitement as the applause commenced, nobody had noticed Stafford slipping out of the lecture hall.
▪ The benefits for items 1-3 and 5 are only payable provided the contingency commences within 12 months of the injury.
▪ Undaunted I commenced my own search and within minutes was holding a medieval buckle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commence

Commence \Com*mence"\, v. t. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

Many a wooer doth commence his suit.
--Shak.

Note: 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.

Commence

Commence \Com*mence"\ (k[o^]m*m[e^]ns"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Commenced (k[o^]m*m[e^]nst"); 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commence

c.1300, from Old French comencier "to begin, start" (10c., Modern French commencer), from Vulgar Latin *cominitiare, originally "to initiate as priest, consecrate," from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + initiare "to initiate," from initium (see initial (adj.)). Spelling with double -m- began in French and was established in English by 1500. Related: Commenced; commencing.\n

Wiktionary
commence

vb. (context intransitive English) To begin, start.

WordNet
commence
  1. v. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out] [ant: end]

  2. set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" [syn: begin, lead off, start] [ant: end]

  3. get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack" [syn: start, start up, embark on]

Usage examples of "commence".

So he commenced to bargain, and in the end the person of Meriem passed from the possession of the black chieftain into that of the two Swedes in consideration of six yards of Amerikan, three empty brass cartridge shells and a shiny, new jack knife from New Jersey.

It was an attempt at commencing a system of theology on the Anglican idea, and based upon Anglican authorities.

Some of your friends have probably informed you that at our last Quarterly Meeting much sympathy was expressed for the destitute artizans, and a liberal subscription was commenced, and was to be carried forward in all our meetings for their relief: a few days ago it amounted to L800--I hope it will exceed L1000: but what is that, it may be said, among so many?

Then he awoke and once more commenced the work, but on a different plan, and behold!

My mother was the daughter of the respected Clerk of the Peace for Bedfordshire, a position of good influence, which might be, and is occasionally, of great assistance to a young man commencing his career at the Bar.

At sunset the Sabbath would commence, and so the crowds would not be coming to Bethabara today.

He surrenders his post to a comrade, and crawls down into his bombproof dugout almost reluctantly, for the long day of inactive waiting has commenced.

The domestic treatment at the monthly crisis should be commenced by the administration of hot foot, and sitz-baths, after which the patient should be warmly covered in bed, and bottles of hot water applied to the extremities, back, and thighs.

I commenced in the spring and took three bottles of each of your medicines, and I felt so much better I thought that was enough, and ever since I have had my health.

Judson having decided to commence a course of public preaching to the natives, thought best to secure the assistance of a native convert from the province of Arracan, who spoke the Burman language, to assist him in his first public efforts.

I seen Hi Bryam and his feet and seen how chummy he and Blaine and Butts were, I commenced to have hopes again.

Armed with the cabalistic talisman, which was to guide him in his awful and difficult researches, Alroy commenced his pilgrimage to the Holy City.

Thereupon Carandas commenced to laugh, though inwardly raging all the time.

So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily.

When a party voluntarily appears in a cause and actively conducts his defense, he cannot thereafter claim that he was denied due process merely because he was not served with process when the original action was commenced.