commission (2 the commonest use in S.)
1.
order, mandate
Meas. I. i. 13, Lr. V. iii. 254.
2.
warrant All'sW. II. iii. 280,
1H6 V. iv. 95
“letters of ,”
H8 I. ii. 20, &c.,
Rom. IV. i. 64,
Lr. V. iii. 65
“Bore the commission of
my place and person.”
3.
“in ,” entrusted with
an office Mac. I. iv. 2; cf.
Cor. IV. vii. 14
“Join'd in with him; in
with,”
serving as a justice of the peace with 2H4 III. ii. 98.
4.
body of persons
charged with some specified office
Lr. III. vi. 41
“You are o' the
commission.”
