COMMINUATE
COMMINUATE, verb transitive To grind.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COMMINUIBLE
COMMINUIBLE, adjective Reducible to powder.
COMMINUTE
COMMINUTE, verb transitive To make small or fine; to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder, by breaking, pounding, rasping, or grinding; to pulverize; to triturate; to...
COMMINUTED
COMMINUTED, participle passive Reduced to fine particles; pulverized; triturated.
COMMINUTING
COMMINUTING, participle present tense Reducing to fine particles; pulverizing; levigating.
COMMINUTION
COMMINUTION, noun1. The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization.2. Attenuation; as comminution of spirits.
COMMISERABLE
COMMISERABLE, adjective [See Commiserate.] Deserving of commiseration or pity; pitiable; that may excite sympathy or sorrow.This commiserable person, Edward.
COMMISERATE
COMMISERATE, verb transitive1. To pity; to compassionate; to feel sorrow, pain or regret for another in distress; applied to persons.We should commiserate those who groan beneat...
COMMISERATED
COMMISERATED, participle passive Pitied.
COMMISERATING
COMMISERATING, participle present tense Pitying; compassionating; feeling sorrow for.
COMMISERATION
COMMISERATION, noun Pity; compassion; a sympathetic suffering of pain or sorrow for the wants, afflictions or distresses of another.I cannot think of these poor deluded creature...
COMMISERATIVELY
COMMISERATIVELY, adverb From compassion.
COMMISERATOR
COMMISERATOR, noun One who pities.
COMMISSARIAL
COMMISSARIAL, adjective [See Commissary.] Pertaining to a commissary.Smollett uses commissorial; but this is not regular nor authorized.
COMMISSARIATE
COMMISSARIATE, noun The office or employment of a commissary; or the whole body of officers in the commissarys department.
COMMISSARY
COMMISSARY, noun1. In general sense, a commissioner; one to whom is committed some charge, duty or office, by a superior power; one who is sent or delegated to execute some offi...
COMMISSARYSHIP
COMMISSARYSHIP, noun The office of a commissary.
COMMISSION
COMMISSION, noun1. 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 ch...
COMMISSION-MERCHAN
COMMISSION-MERCHANT, n. 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.
COMMISSIONAL
COMMISSIONAL,COMMISSIONARY, adjective Appointed by warrant.
COMMISSIONARY
COMMISSIONARY, a. Appointed by warrant.
COMMISSIONED
COMMISSIONED, participle passive Furnished with a commission; empowered; authorized.
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 h...
COMMISSIONING
COMMISSIONING, participle present tense Giving a commission to; furnishing with a warrant; empowering by letters patent or other writing; authorizing.
COMMISSURE
COMMISSURE, noun1. A joint, seam or closure; the place where two bodies or parts of a body meet and unite; an interstice or cleft between particles or parts, as between plates o...
COMMIT
COMMIT, verb transitive Literally, to send to or upon; to throw, put or lay upon. Hence,1. To give in trust; to put into the hands or power of another; to entrust; with to.COMMI...
COMMITMENT
COMMITMENT, noun1. The act of committing; a sending to prison; a putting into prison; imprisonment. It is equivalent to sending or putting in simply; as a commitment to the towe...