COMMENCED

Definition: COMMENCED

COMMENCED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Commence

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COMMENCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Crosswords: COMMENCED

Fight's Commenced! Get to fightin' or get away! (Tombstone; writing credit: Kevin Jarre)

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Music

• She Commenced to Shaving (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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War Demonstration Hospital : Bird's-eye view- one week after construction commenced. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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On the 25th of May, seven States having convened, George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously elected President, and the consideration of the proposed constitution was commenced. (reference)

The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. (reference)

Subject to the stipulations of the present Treaty, rights of industrial, literary and artistic property, as such property is defined by the International Conventions of Paris and of Berne, mentioned in Article 286, shall be re-established or restored, as from the coming into force of the present Treaty, in the territories of the High Contracting Parties, in favour of the persons entitled to the benefit of them at the moment when the state of war commenced or their legal representatives. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the mode of celebrating the day on which the political year of the colony commenced.

This synod was held at Notre Dame, and commenced its sessions on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency of Cardinal Fesch.

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Business

A fourth domestic carrier has very recently commenced operations. (references)

Digital GSM networks in Lithuania commenced in 1995, which makes the mobile market fairly young but rapidly growing and advancing. (references)

Starhub commenced their services in April 2000, and plans to invest more than $1 billion in fixed line infrastructure, including an extensive fiber network, and $285 million in a mobile phone network. (references)

Children

Lesotho

The Government began implementation of a new program that provides free public education through the primary grades (1 through 6). The program commenced in all schools in the first grade during 2000, and it covered the costs of school fees, books, and one meal per day. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

In April 2000, the defendants were appointed lawyers, and a closed trial commenced in a revolutionary court in Shiraz. (references)

Austria

On October 7, when military action commenced in Afghanistan, the Government suspended processing of asylum applications filed by citizens of Afghanistan. (references)

Economic History

India

The services have already commenced in 30 cities by 20 companies. (references)

Qatar

Construction commenced May 1999. Commencement of commercial production: Mid-2001. (references)

Croatia

Work on most projects has commenced and additional credit lines are being negotiated. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

Burial ceremonies, public and private, commenced at year's end. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

Classes commenced in November. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Algeria applied for GATT contracting party status in its own right in 1987. Negotiations, however, never commenced. (references)

Political Rights

Mozambique

Voter registration commenced in 1999 and continued for 60 days. (references)

Trade

Georgia

Private commercial banks commenced operations in 1989 when the FSU began to liberalize its financial system. (references)

Romania

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) commenced operations in November 1995 and as of June 2001 had 110 listed companies at two tiers, and a market capitalization of $706.2 million. (references)

Worker Rights

Romania

New discussions, which included the unions and employers, commenced during the year; however, no new legislation was presented to Parliament by year's end. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "COMMENCED": life-commenced.

Chinese 

开始 (Began, begin, Begun, Commence, Commencement, Commencing, inaugurate, Inaugurated, Inaugurating, inception, start, started, starting, start-off). (various references)

Danish

klagen,der indgives af en tjenestemand eller anden ansat over en institution (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

Dutch

beroep dat door een ambtenaar of een ander personeelslid van een instelling aanhangig wordt gemaakt (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

Finnish

alkamaton (not commenced, unopened). (various references)

French

recours formé par un fonctionnaire ou autre agent d'une institution (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

German

begann (began, begun), angefangen (begun). (various references)

Greek 

προσφυγή που κατατίθεται από ένα μόνιμο υπάλληλο ή από μέλος του λοιπού προσωπικού ενός οργάνου (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

Hebrew 

מותחל (begun, started). (various references)

Italian

ricorso proposto da funzionario o da altro dipendente delle istituzioni (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

Korean 

시작하�" (started). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommencedcay

Portuguese

recurso interposto por funcionário ou outro agente de qualquer instituição (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

Spanish

recurso interpuesto por funcionario u otro agente de una Institución (proceedings commenced by an official or other servant of an institution). (various references)

coeptam, coepto, coeptum. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "COMMENCED": recommenced. (additional references)

Misspellings

"COMMENCED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmmence, Comanecj, comence, comince, commense, compence, compenced. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: commence.

-2 letters: commend, concede.

-3 letters: encode, omened.

-4 letters: codec, coden, coned, demon, donee, emend, modem, monde.

-5 letters: cede, code, coed, come, cone, deco, deem, deme, demo, dene, dome, done, meed, meme, memo, mend, meno, mode, mome, need, neem, node, nome, omen, once.

+2 letters: recommenced.

+5 letters: excommunicated.