commenced  /kəm'ɛnst/

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資料來源(1): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Commence \Com*mence"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commenced}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Commencing}.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L.
     com- + initiare to begin. See {Initiate}.]
     1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to
        begin.
  
              Here the anthem doth commence.        --Shak.
  
              His heaven commences ere the world be past.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
  
     2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic]
  
              We commence judges ourselves.         --Coleridge.
  
     3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.]
  
              I question whether the formality of commencing was
              used in that age.                     --Fuller.