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Command
COMMAND, v.t.
1. To bid; to order; to direct; to charge; implying authority, and power to control, and to require obedience.
We will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us. Exo 8.
I know that he [Abraham] will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Gen 18.
2. To govern, lead or direct; to have or to exercise supreme authority over.
Lord Wellington commanded an army in Spain; he commanded the army at the battle of Waterloo.
3. To have in power; to be able to exercise power or authority over; as, a military post commands the surrounding country; a fort commands the harbor.
4. To overlook, or have in the power of the eye, without obstruction.
One side commands a view of the finest garden in the world.
5. To direct; to send.
The Lord shall command the blessing on thee. Deu 28.
The Lord will command his loving kindness. Psa 43.
6. To have or to exercise a controlling influence over.
A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.
COMMAND, v.i. To have or to exercise supreme authority; to possess the chief power; to govern; as, the general commands with dignity and humanity. What general commands in Canada?
COMMAND, n.
1. The right or power of governing with chief or exclusive authority; supreme power; control; as, an officer has a brigade under his command; he takes command of the army in France; an appropriate military term.
2. The power of controlling; governing influence; sway.
He assumed an absolute command over his readers.
3. Cogent or absolute authority.
Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion.
4. The act of commanding; the mandate uttered; order given.
The captain gives command.
5. The power of overlooking, or surveying, without obstruction.
The steepy strand, Which overlooks the vale with wide command.
6. The power of governing or controlling by force, or of defending and protecting.
The fortress has complete command of the port.
7. That which is commanded control; as a body of troop under command.
command appears in definitions for these words:
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Absolutely Accessory Ad Add Adjure Admiral Adultery Aga All-commanding Ambitious Amphibial Any Appoint Appointment Apprise Arbiter As Ascendant At Attaching Attachment Authority Away Baal Beauty Beck Beg Behave Behest Behight Behold Bid Bidding Binding Body Brief Brigade Brigadier Bulletin Business Butcher Cabin Call Captain Captaincy Captainry Captainship Caption Cash Castellan Centuriators Cessation Charact Charge Charged Charging Cherub Chief Chieftain Collect Colonel Color Command Commandable Commandant Commandatory Commander Commandery Commandment Commandning Commandry Commodore Company Compliance Comply Comprehend Conclusion Concupiscence Condescend Condescension Conduct Conducted Conducting Conductor Consistently Controll Controllable Convention Coronel Corporalship Council Countermand Countermanding County Covenant Crier Crime Critical Critically Decalogue Decurion Defeat Demand Derange Designate Designation Devolve Dictate Did Diligently Direct Directorial Disapprove Disengage Disobedience Disobedient Disobey Dispatch Dispensation Dispense Displeasure Distringas Division Do Doom Down Dream Edict Embalm Emperor Enchanter End Enjoin Enjoined Enjoinment Enomotarch Enough Entitle Excellently Exert Expel Extent Faithful Feel Fellow-soldier Fiat Field-marshal Field-staff Fierceness Flaccidness Flank Flanked Flanker Flow Fluent Follow Follower Forbearance Forbid Forbiddance Front Frown Full Furlow General Generalissimo Generalship Give Godliness Godly Good Govern Greatness Hant Head Headquarters Hearing Herald Heretoch Herself Hest Highness Hinder Hist Hoist If Image Immorality Imperate Imperative Imperatively Imperatorial Imperial Imperious Imperiously Imperiousness Impiety Impose Imposing Impotent Infer Inform Injunction Instruct Instruction Investment Issue Join Jolliness Judgment Justification Keep Law Lay Lead Leader Lest Let Lochage Mainprize Major-general Manage Mandamus Mandatary Mandator Mandatory Mandment Mareschal Marshal Massacer Master Mastery Mate Mendicant Menpleaser Mighty Ministerial Ministrant Mirador Mistress Mittimus Mode Moneyed Monopolist More Mount Mum Muse Mutiny Myriarch Navarch Nisiprius Nod Noted Novel Obedience Obedient Obediential Obediently Obey Obeyed Obeying Obligation Obsequious Observe Occasion Off Office Officer On Opinion Order Ordered Ordering Ordinance Out Ovation Paralysis Partisan Pashaw Pass-parole Patron Peace Pentacoster Peremptory Permistion Pious Piratical Pleasure Positive Possess Possession Power Precept Preceptive Precipe Precipient Prefect Prefectship Presence Press Press-gang Presumptuous Prevent Primarily Proffer Prohibit Prohibition Promise Promptitude Propretor Province Pursuance Quarter Raise Rash Reference Refuse Regiment Religion Religiously Render Repeat Reseize Respectability Respectable Restraint Return Review Righteous Room Roster Rule Run Sabbath-breaking Sabbatic Say Scarp Secrecy Seduction Seraskier Servant Serve Service Serviceableness Set Several Shadowy Shall Shipmaster Short Sign Signify Sin Slavery Slight Sorcery Soul Speak Spring Staff Stand Statute Stay Strength Strictly Stubborn Subject Submission Subpena Subserve Subside Such Sultan Summon Summons Supersedeas Superstition Supreme Suspension Sweinmote Swerve Table Take Taxiarch Teach Tell Temerity Thus Tradition Transgression Transgressor Trespass Tribune Trierarch Troop Truce Truncheon Truth Tye Unable Unbid Uncommanded Uncomplying Unfortunate Ungodliness Ungodly Unimposing Unkept Unlucky Unofficially Unreserved Up Valetudinarian Verb Vice-admiral Vice-chamberlain Vice-legate Violate Violation Voice Walk Wander Ward Which Whole Wield Wielded Will Wisdom Wise Word Writ Write
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