service, temporarily or permanently. — To put the great seal, or the Treasury, into commission,
to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration,
as between the going out of one lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.] — The United States
Christian Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which
afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the
field and in hospitals. — The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the
people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during
the Civil War.
Syn. — Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust; employment.
Commission
(Com*mis"sion) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commissioned ; p. pr & vb. n. Commissioning.]
1. To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission
persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
2. To send out with a charge or commission.
A chosen band
He first commissions to the Latian land.
Dryden.
Syn. — To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate; constitute; ordain.
