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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
commence .
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Examples
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"Why, thou mother of Afrits and Ghouls, if thou commencest not immediately, thy carcass shall be thrown over the walls for the wild dogs to smell at, and turn away from in disgust."
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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"Why, thou mother of afrits and ghouls, if thou commencest not immediately, thy carcass shall be thrown over the walls for the wild dogs to smell at, and turn away from in disgust."
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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See that while yet thou art free, on the first thou commencest thy journey,
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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See that while yet thou art free, on the first thou commencest thy journey,
The Poems of Schiller — Third period Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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I mark, by thy talk, that thou commencest philosopher, and then thou art only a fellow-servant out of livery. "
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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