Vocabulary : Commissioned to Commitment

Commissioned : of Commission
Commissioner : A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. ;; An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
Commissioning : of Commission
Commissionnaire : An agent or factor; a commission merchant. ;; One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
Commissionship : The office of commissioner.

Commissive : Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.
Commissural : Of or pertaining to a commissure.
Commissure : A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture. ;; The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc. ;; A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma. ;; The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
Commit : To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto. ;; To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. ;; To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. ;; To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with. ;; To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course. ;; To confound. ;; To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
Commitment : The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison. ;; A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus. ;; The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill. ;; A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission. ;; The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

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