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Command [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

3. He assumed an absolute command over his readers.

4. Cogent or absolute authority.

5. COMMAND and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion.

6. The act of commanding; the mandate uttered; order given.

7. The captain gives command

8. The power of overlooking, or surveying, without obstruction.

9. The steepy strand, Which overlooks the vale with wide command

10. The power of governing or controlling by force, or of defending and protecting.

11. The fortress has complete command of the port.

12. That which is commanded control; as a body of troop under command

Command [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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 [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bid; to order; to direct; to charge; implying authority, and power to control, and to require obedience.

2. We will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us. Exodus 8:27 .

3. I know that he [Abraham] will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Genesis 18:19 .

4. To govern, lead or direct; to have or to exercise supreme authority over.

5. Lord Wellington commanded an army in Spain; he commanded the army at the battle of Waterloo.

6. 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.

7. To overlook, or have in the power of the eye, without obstruction.

8. One side commands a view of the finest garden in the world.

9. To direct; to send.

10. The Lord shall command the blessing on thee. Deuteronomy 28:1 .

11. The Lord will command his loving kindness. Psalms 43:1 .

12. To have or to exercise a controlling influence over.

13. A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.

Command [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.

2. The possession or exercise of authority.

3. Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.

4. Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.

5. Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.

6. A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.

Command [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.

2. To have a view, as from a superior position.

Command [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

2. To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.

3. To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.

4. To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.

5. To direct to come; to bestow.

Commandable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be commanded.

Commandable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being commanded.

Commandant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A commander; a commanding officer of a place or of a body of forces.

Commandant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.

Commandatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having the force of a command.

Commandatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.

Commanded [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ordered; directed; governed; controlled.

Commanded [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Command

Commander [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. The term may also be applied to the admiral of a fleet, or of a squadron, or to any supreme officer; as the commander of the land or of the naval force; the commander of a ship.

2. One on whom is bestowed a benefice or commandry.

3. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, etc.

4. An instrument of surgery.

Commander [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.

2. An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.

3. The chief officer of a commandery.

4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.

Commanderies [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Commandery

Commandership [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office of a commander.

Commandery [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. COMMANDERY ,

2. COMMANDINGLY, adverb In a commanding manner.

Commandery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The office or rank of a commander.

2. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.

3. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.

4. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.

Commanding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.

2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.

3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.

Commanding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Command

Commandingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a commanding manner.

Commandment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A command; a mandate; an order or injunction given by authority; charge; precept.

2. Why do ye transgress the commandment of God. Matthew 15:3 .

3. This is the first and great commandment Matthew 22:38 .

4. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. John 13:34 .

5. By way of eminence, a precept of the decalogue, or moral law, written on tables of stone, at Mount Sinai; one of the ten commandments. Exodus 34:32 .

6. Authority; coercive power.

Commandment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

2. One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority.

4. The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

Commandning [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. COMMANDNING , pr.

2. Bidding; ordering; directing with authority; governing; bearing rule; exercising supreme authority; having in power; overlooking without obstruction.

Commandning [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Controlling by influence, authority, or dignity; as a man of commanding manners; a commanding eloquence.

Commandress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A woman invested with supreme authority.

Commandress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A woman invested with authority to command.

Commandry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of benefice or fixed revenue, belonging to a military order, conferred on knights of merit. There are strict and regular commandries, obtained by merit, or in order; and others are of grace and favor, bestowed by the Grand Master. There are also commandries for the religious, in the orders of St. Bernard and St. Anthony.

Commandry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Commandery.

Height Roget’s Thesaurus §206

N. height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, alp, uplands, highlands, heights &c. (summit), 210, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky

V. be high, tower, soar, command, hover, hover over, fly over, orbit, be in orbit, cap, culminate, overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount, perch, surmount, cover, overtop, stand on tiptoe, become high, grow higher, grow taller, upgrow, rise, send into orbit, render high, heighten

Adj. high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging, elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent &c. c, 250, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky

Adv. on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom

Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto

Requirement Roget’s Thesaurus §630

N. requirement, need, wants, necessities, # necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, (exaction) 741, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want

V. require, need, want, have occasion for, not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with, prerequire, render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for, put in requisition, make a requisition, (demand) 741, stand in need of, lack, desiderate, desire, be necessary &c

Adj. adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of

Adv. ex necessitate rei, of necessity

Phr. there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te, 2, subservience to ends 1. actual subservience

Direction Roget’s Thesaurus §693

N. direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director

V. direct, manage, govern, conduct, order, prescribe, cut out work for, bead, lead, lead the way, show the way, take the lead, lead on, regulate, guide, steer, pilot, tackle take the helm, be at the helm, have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins, drive, tool, superintend, supervise, overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for, administer, ministrate, matronize, have the care of, have the charge of, be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction, boss, boss one around, pull the strings, pull the wires, rule, have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio, preside, preside at the board, take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair, pull the stroke oar

Adj. directing, hegemonic

Adv. at the helm, at the head of

Government Roget’s Thesaurus §737a

N. government, legal authority, soveriegn, sovereign authority, authority, master, direction, national government, nation, state, country, nation-state, dominion, republic, empire, union, democratic republic, kingdom, principality, state government, state, shire, province, county, canton, territory, duchy, archduchy, archdukedom, woiwodshaft, commonwealth, region, property, county, parish, city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune, wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing, ward, precinct, bailiwick, command, empire, sway, rule, dominion, domination, sovereignty, supremacy, suzerainty, lordship, headship, chiefdom, seigniory, seigniority, rule, sway, command, control, administer, govern, lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne, sway the scepter, wield the scepter, wear the crown, state, realm, body politic, posse comitatus, judicature, cabinet, seat of government, seat of authority, headquarters, accession, installation, politics, reign, regime, dynasty, directorship, dictatorship, protectorate, protectorship, caliphate, pashalic, electorate, presidency, presidentship, administration, proconsul, consulship, prefecture, seneschalship, magistrature, magistracy, monarchy, kinghood, kingship, royalty, regality, aristarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy, commonwealth, dominion, heteronomy, republic, republicanism, socialism, collectivism, mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy, vox populi, imperium in imperio, bureaucracy, beadledom, bumbledom, stratocracy, military power, military government, junta, feodality, feudal system, feudalism, thearchy, theocracy, dinarchy, duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy, duumvirate, triumvirate, autocracy, autonomy, limited monarchy, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, home rule, representative government, monocracy, pantisocracy, gynarchy, gynocracy, gynaeocracy, petticoat government, legislature, judiciary, administration, office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet, senate, house of representatives, parliament, council, courts, supreme court, state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury, federal bureau of investigation, fbi, central intelligence agency, cia, national institutes of health, nih, postal service, post office, federal aviation administration, faa, president, vice president, cabinet member, prime minister, minister, senator, representatative, president pro tem, speaker of the house, department head, section head, section chief, federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice, treasurer, secretary of the treasury, director of the fbi, governor, state cabinet member, state senator, assemblyman, assemblywoman

V. govern, rule, have authority, hold authority, possess authority, exercise authority, exert authority, wield authority, reign, be sovereign, ascend the throne, mount the throne, take the reins, take the reins into one's hand, assume authority, assume the reins of government, take command, assume command, politics, be governed by, be in the power of, be a subject of, be a citizen of

Adj. regal, sovereign, governing, royal, royalist, monarchical, kingly, imperial, imperiatorial, princely, feudal, aristocratic, autocratic, oligarchic, republican, dynastic, ruling, regnant, gubernatorial, imperious, authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute, hegemonic, hegemonical, authorized, government, public, national, federal, his majesty's, her majesty's, state, county, city, &c. n, phr, "a dog's obeyed in office", cada uno tiene su alguazil, le roi le veut, regibus esse manus en nescio longas, regnant populi, "the demigod authority", "the right divine of kings to govern wrong", "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

Command Roget’s Thesaurus §741

N. command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod, despatch, dispatch, message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions, appointment, fixture, demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication, ultimatum, request, requirement, dictation, dictate, mandate, caveat, decree, senatus consultum, precept, prescript, rescript, writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation, word, word of command, mot d'ordre, bugle call, trumpet call, beat of drum, tattoo, order of the day, enactment, plebiscite

V. command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders, prescribe, set, appoint, mark out, set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task, set to work, put in requisition, bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct, require at the hands of, exact, impose, tax, task, demand, insist on, claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim, cite, summon, call for, send for, subpoena, beckon, issue a command, make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order, give the word of command, give the word, give the signal, call to order, give the law, lay down the law, assume the command, remand, be -ordered &c, receive an order

Adj. commanding, authoritative, decretory, decretive, decretal, callable, jussive

Adv. in a commanding tone, by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the pen, by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons

Phr. the decree is gone forth, sic volo sic jubeo, le roi le veut, boutez en avant

Possession Roget’s Thesaurus §777

N. possession, seizin, seisin, ownership, occupancy, hold, holding, tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency, villenage, villeinage, socage, chivalry, knight service, exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention, prepossession, preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner, usucaption, future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority, primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call, option, right of first refusal, bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession

V. possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy, be possessed of, have in hand, own, command, inherit, come to, come in for, engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to oneself, corner, have a firmhold of, get into one's hand, belong to, appertain to, pertain to, be in one's possession, vest in

Adj. possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared

Phr. entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est

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Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

Genesis 3:11

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:17

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 6:22

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

Genesis 7:5

And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

Genesis 7:9

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:16

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 12:20

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.

Genesis 18:19

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”

Genesis 21:4

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 21:22

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

Genesis 21:32

Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:5

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Genesis 26:26

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

Genesis 27:8

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

Genesis 28:1

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

Genesis 28:6

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

Genesis 32:4

And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.

Genesis 32:17

And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’

Genesis 32:19

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.