Word Meanings - COMMENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge. 3. To take

Additional info about word: COMMENCE

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. We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. Fuller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMENCE)

• Begin
• Initiate
• commence
• prepare
• start
• originate
• arise
• inaugurate
• Inaugurate
• install
• Lead Conduct
• guide
• precede
• induce
• spend
• pass
• convoy
• persuade
• direct
• influence
• Open Unclose
• lay open
• lay Dare expose
• explain
• disclose
• initiate
• begin
• Originate
• Commence
• spring
• rise
• invent
• create
• cause to be made
• proceed
• emanate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMMENCE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Settle
• alight
• land
• drop
• arrive
• issue
• eventuate
• end
• terminate
• debouch
• disembogue

Related words: (words related to COMMENCE)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• 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
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PROCEREBRUM
  The prosencephalon.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• CONVOY
  To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym:
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.