Hypertext Webster Gateway: "commencing"

From 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.

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