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uncoˈmmissioned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not commissioned or authorized.
1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. (1840) 618 Commissioned plunder begun with the war, but uncommissioned plunder was before it. a1711Ken Anodynes Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 460 Whose Voice I labour to suppress; While she my State bemoans, In uncommission'd Sighs and Groans. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 168 A little Priest's bringing the Mysteries into Etruria, on his own head; uncommissioned by his Superiors. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 533 Uncommissioned inspecting judges. 1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 107 The one holds Ordination to be derived from the Apostles; the other, that Presbyters, uncommissioned, may confer it.
2. Of ships: = non-commissioned a. 2.
1822M. Edgeworth Let. 12 June (1971) 407 The Nelson—just finished but uncommissioned a first rate man of war 120 guns. 1863Lond. Rev. 10 Jan. 7 The order of Earl Russell to detain her at Nassau must have been made under the impression that she would have reached that port uncommissioned. |