commissionated love

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of commissionate.

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Examples

  • For a man to take part with the kingdom's enemies, is no small crime; but for a commission-officer to run from them by whom he is commissionated, to take part with the adversary, is death without mercy.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • There is no mention of his waking before his making this address; but the vision continuing, he draws nigh in the same manner to one of them that stood by, -- one of those angels, or holy ones, that stood ministering before the throne of God, who was commissionated to acquaint him with the mind and will of God in the things represented to them.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • No strength but the strength of God can stand in the way of the weakest things of the world that are commissionated from God for any end or purpose whatever.

    Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967

  • He is permitted as to his wickedness, and commissionated as to the event and punishment intended.

    Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967

  • Imperial Crown of this Realm, or any others His Majesties Dominions, or to suspend him from the exercise of His Royal Government, or to levy War or take up Arms against His Majesty or any commissionated by Him, or shall entice any strangers or others to invade any of His Majesties

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

  • The two _commissionated prophets_ were by no means dismayed, by no means inclined to be outdone by the

    The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

  • The several terms therein explained in the spiritual sense of them; according to which, by the word adversary is meant the divine law, or a man's own conscience, as commissionated by that law, 251.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • Not to traverse the various and differing opinions of commentators; if the form of the words should be only tropical and figurative, I conceive it most rational to understand here by adversary, either the divine law, or a man's own conscience as commissionated by that law to accuse, charge, and arraign him before the great and dreadful tribunal of God.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • That as to the above mentioned Judges, that are commissionated for this

    "Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S., 1692"; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1692

  • Afterwards, in the second expedition, he was commissionated a captain in the same regiment, and in that time wrote a tragedy called THE SOLDIER, but never acted, because the stage was soon after suppressed.

    The Lucasta Poems Richard Lovelace 1637

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