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 *take, enter into, make an ouerture vnto.  Tel cuide avoit fait qui commence: Prov. Some thinke they haue done when they are to begin; or, when they haue but begun; or, some are new to begin, when they thinke they haue done, a businesse.

Commendaces: f. Funerall Orations; prayers made for the dead; verses made in praise of the dead.

Commendataire: m. A commendatarie; one that hath, or sues for, a Commendum. Commendataire: com. Commendatarie; giuen in, enioyed, or enioying by, Commendum. Abbé commendataire. A Secular Abbot; one that hath an Abbey in Commendum, and yet was neuer Monke, nor Priest.

Commende: f. A Commendum; or Benefice giuen in Commendum. Commenderesse: f. as Commanderesse. Commenial. (¶Rabelais l. 4. chap. 44.) A barbarous or ieasting repetition of the word comme going some two lines before, and vsed by Frier John.

Commensal: m. A companion at table; a soiourner, or dailie guest.  Les commensaux de la maison du Roy. Such officers as be in ordinarie, or haue bouche (which we call budge) à Court. Commensalité: f. Commensalitie; a continuall feeding together at one table.

Commensuration: f. Commensuration; a ioynt measuring.

Comment: m. as Commentaire. Comment. How, in what sort, after what fashion, by what meanes, for what reason, in what manner.  Le comment a nom de sa femme. His wiues how-should-I-call-it: ¶Rab. Commentaire: m. A comment, commentarie, glosse, exposition.

Commentateur: m. A commentator, or commenter; a glosser, expositor, or expounder of a text.

Commenté: m. ée: f. Expounded, commented on.

Commenter. To comment, to write commentaries; to expound.

Commerage: f. Gossiping; the acquaintance, affinitie, or league that growes betweene women by christening a child together, or one for another.

Commerce: m. Commerce, intercourse of trafficke; familiaritie, or acquaintance gotten; correspondencie, or intelligence continued, betweene people, in dealing, or trading, together.  Leurs offices tombent en commerce. Their offices are saleable, vendible; set to sale; to be bought, and sold.

Commere: f. A she-gossip, or godmother; a gomme.  Commere de fesses. A bed-broaker, an arse-gossip; a gossip for all buttocke-matches, or, in all baudie meetings.  Vin de commeres. A sweet, and pleasant wine.  Tout y va par compere, & commere. All things are carried among them by fauour, and friendship; like good drunken gossips, they will do any thing one for another.

Commerer. To gossip it, to play the gossip.

Commesurable: com. Measurable together, or with one and the same measure.

Commettre. To commit, referre, giue ouer, assigne, or inioyne a charge, or businesse vnto; also, to appoint, or delegate vnto a charge, or businesse; also, to doe, commit, or perpetrate an offence.  Commettre son fief. To forfeit his inheritance.  Se commettre à. To commit, betake, or yeeld him-* *selfe ouer vnto; to venture vpon.

Commeu: m. euë: f. Moued, or stirred much; troubled, disturbed; chafed; shaken.

Commin: m. Cummine (seed, or hearbe.)

Commination: f. A commination; an extreame, or vehement threatning.

Comminatoire: com. Comminatorie; threatfull, threatening much.

Comminé: m. ée: f. Threatned extreamely, menaced vehemently.

Comminer. To threaten extreamely, menace vehemently.

Comminué: m. ée: f. Brayed small; beaten, or broken, into small peeces; also, diminished, minished, lessened.

Comminuer. To bray small; to beat, or breake, into small peeces; also, to lessen, minish, diminish.

Commis: m. A committee; one thats appointed to examine, or decide, a matter; also, a Deputie in an office; also, a Commissioner; also, a Commissarie; also, a forfeiture.

Commis: m. ise: f. Assigned, appointed, delegated; also, referred, vnto; also, done, acted, committed, as an offence, &c; also, forfeited.

Commise: f. A forfeiture, or forfeiting.  Droict de commise. The right, or power a Landlord hath to confiscate, seise, or enter on, the land held by his vassall, or tenant, who disaduowes him, giues him the lye, or commits felonie.

Commiseration: f. Commiseration; compassion; a sencible apprehension, or pitie taken of other mens miseries.

Commissaire: A Commissioner; one that receiues his authoritie by Commißion; hence, a Iustice, or Commißioner, of the peace; who is to inquire after faults, disorders, and trespasses committed; also, a Judge Delegate; also, a Judge, or Arbitrator appointed to examine, determine, or accord, a priuate controuersie; also, an Ouerseer, Sequestrator, or seller of goods, authorized thereto by the Magistrate; and one, that hath, by the same authoritie, the possession, and keeping of lands, that are seized by publike order, giuen him. Commissaires de l'artillerie. Are a certaine number of Commissioners, or Commissaries, one whereof the Master of the Ordnance assignes to euerie Prouince of Gouernment for th' ouerseeing of th' Ordnance that is therein. Commissaires du Chastelet. Are, in Paris, little other than our London Scauengers; for their principall office is to looke that the streets bee kept cleane, and well paued. Commissaires des fermes. Certaine Officers, who looke that the farmes of the Aides be well passed, and the reuenue thereof duely paied. Commissaires des guerres. Commissaries, or Muster-masters of armies: these must be Gentlemen, such as haue beene Gens d'armes des ordonnances (at the least) six yeares; and are commaunded onely by the Marshalls of France, or, in their absence, by the Kings Lieutenants generall. Commissaires des Monstres. The same; or ordinarie Muster-masters. Commissaires des Vivres, & Munitions. Generall Ouerseers, appointed, by Commission, to looke that the victualls prouided for armies, and garrisons, bee iustly distributed, and disposed of.