† commissionatedadj.
Obsolete.
That is or has been commissioned; (also) conferred by commission. Cf. commissionate v.
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society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > commissioned
commissionarya1600
commissioned1612
commissionated1642
commissionate1647
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > [adjective]
commissionated1642
commissionate1647
commissioned?c1663
substantive1826
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [adjective] > holding a rank by commission
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commissioned?c1663
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 137 Will your commissionated Church be comely as the tents of Kedar?
1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 485 All Commissionated officers in the Army, as Colonels, Master of Artillery, Quarter-Master General, &c.
1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 183 Without the bounds or limits of their commissionated authority.
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 506 The lieutenants or deputy lieutenants or any commissionated officer of the militia.
?1800 J. Birch Cherubical Reason iii. 17 When the voice of God came to him [sc. Moses] in justice, it also came between him as a commissionated man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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