Word Meanings - CORNETCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The commission or rank of a cornet.

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• CORNET-A-PISTON
  A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet. (more info) piston. Etym:
• COMMISSIONAIRE
  1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
• COMMISSION
  1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
• CORNETER
  One who blows a cornet.
• COMMISSIONAL; COMMISSIONARY
  Of pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. Delegate or commissionary authority. Bp. Hall.
• CORNETCY
  The commission or rank of a cornet.
• COMMISSIONATE
  To commission
• COMMISSIONNAIRE
  1. An agent or factor; a commission merchant. 2. One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
• COMMISSIONER
  1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted
• COMMISSIONSHIP
  The office of commissioner. Sir W. Scott.
• CORNET
  See 2 (more info) cornette, f. & m. , dim. of corne horn, L. cornu. An obsolete rude reed instrument , of the oboe family. A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons,
• NONCOMMISSIONED
  Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer , a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
• CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
  In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified
• RECOMMISSION
  To commission again; to give a new commission to. Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned. Marshall.
• DISCOMMISSION
  To deprive of a commission or trust. Laud.