transitive. To command, proclaim, offer.

transitive. To command, bid (a person, etc.); chiefly with infinitive or clause as complement, expressing the thing or act commanded. Also: to order…

To command, enjoin, order, tell with authority. (Still literary; also in every-day use in the north… with personal object (sometimes absent), and…

transitive. To bid, command.

transitive. To order, command, or bid (a person to do something, or that a thing be done). Now chiefly Scots Law.

To notify of something commanded; to order under penalties.

with direct and indirect object (the latter formerly often with to).

transitive. To order, command, instruct, direct, or enjoin (a person) to do something; to request or advise authoritatively. Chiefly with…

transitive. To order, command; to send for.

In expressions of desire for something to be done by another, thus conveying a request; hence, to… a thing or action (with various const. as in…

To bid, command.

To command, bid, ordain.

transitive. To give orders to or command; to direct authoritatively (a person to do something). Also intransitive.

transitive. To command. Obsolete. rare.

To direct (a person) authoritatively; to command. Obsolete. rare.