Word Meanings - COMMAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

commander, fr. L. com- + mandare to commit to, to command. Cf. 1. To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge. We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive

Additional info about word: COMMAND

commander, fr. L. com- + mandare to commit to, to command. Cf. 1. To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge. We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. Bacon. Go to your mistress: Say, I command her come to me. Shak. 2. To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead. Monmouth commanded the English auxiliaries. Macaulay. Such aid as I can spare you shall command. Shak. 3. To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison. 4. To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to reeceive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price. 'Tis not in mortals to command success. Addison. 5. To direct to come; to bestow. I will command my blessing upon you. Lev. xxv. 21. Syn. -- To bid; order; direct; dictate; charge; govern; rule; overlook.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMAND)

• Beck
• Nod
• sign
• signal
• symbol
• token
• indication
• authority
• orders
• instruction
• subserviency
• influence
• call
• command
• control
• mandate
• Behest
• Injunction
• commission
• requirement
• trust
• Bid
• Tell
• request
• instruct
• direct
• order
• proffer
• charge
• propose
• offer
• Dictate
• Prompt
• suggest
• enjoin
• pre--crit)e
• decree
• Direction
• Course
• tendency
• inclination
• line
• bearing
• superscription
• address

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMMAND)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to COMMAND)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.