The Commandments, The Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, or summary of God's commands, given to Moses at Mount Sinai. (Ex. xx.)
Com*mand"ress (?), n. A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.
Com*mand"ry (?), n. See Commandery.
Com"mark` (?), n. [OF. comarque, or LL. commarca, commarcha; com- + marcha, boundary. See March a confine.] The frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.
Com`ma*te"ri*al (?), a. Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.
Com*mat"ic (?), a. [L. commaticus, Gr. &?;. See Comma.] Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.
Com"ma*tism (?), n. [See Commatic.] Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.
Com*meas"ur*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. Commensurable.] Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional.
She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done.
I. Walton.
Com*meas"ure (?), v. t. To be commensurate with; to equal. Tennyson.
Com*mem"o*ra"ble (?), a. [L. commemorabilis.] Worthy to be commemorated.
Com*mem"o*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating.] [L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory.] To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July.
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
Atterbury.
Syn. -- See Celebrate.
Com*mem`o*ra"tion (?), n. [L. commemoratio.] 1. The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.
This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord.
Abp. Tillotson.
The commonwealth which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a feast of eternal commemoration.
Burke.