commissionedadj.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. x. i. 889/2 All of them being said to haue assured this ill commissioned Ambassador, that the office of his imployment would bee very gratefull to their master.

1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes i. 21 Compare again that part of our Saviours directions to his Commissioned and Itinerary Sanhedrin.

1748 J. Hervey Contempl. Night in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 2) II. 12 The commissioned Archangel..swears by the Almighty Name, That Time shall be no longer.

1771 J. Toulmin Manner Contending for Faith Considered 32 Is it not presumption..to assign even any truths, such a degree of importance and weight, without the authority of those divinely commissioned teachers?

1814 R. Southey Roderick xxiii Till some commission'd arrow through the teeth Shall nail the offending tongue.

1859 Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iv. 29 A commissioned and worthy successor of the national hero.

1919 Rotarian Jan. 38/3 The club was fortunate in having a commissioned government moving picture producer.

1984 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 June 436 Much of WSL's work is collaborative and based on commissioned research.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 27 Oct. 82/2 Other commissioned artists display similarly attention-grabbing new work.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 132 He having bin a Commissioned officer for a Troupe of Horse before.

1685 London Gaz. No. 2014/6 His Majesties Commissioned Officers.

1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 16 To be signed by himself, and witnessed by two of his commissioned officers.

1775 Rules & Regulations Mass. Army 5 Apr. Such as wilfully absent themselves..shall, if commissioned Officers, be brought before a regimental Court-Martial.

1840 J. Richardson Canad. Brothers II. ix. 119 Here's a commissioned officer of King George, taken..in our very trenches in the disguise of a private soger.

1897 App. Jrnl. Senate & Assembly Calif. 1 195 None of the commissioned staff of the Lieutenant-Commander were present.

1919 Biennial Rep. Attorney Gen. Wyoming 24 The Second Separate Battalion Wyoming Infantry, National Guard, in which Rasmus Andersen was a commissioned Major.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 July iv. 2/2 In shark attacks, drill instructors—not commissioned officers—gather around the recruits and scream at them.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iv. 142 The Governour seem'd mightily pleas'd that we were a commissioned ship.

1800 Constit. Pennsylvania Soc. Abolition of Slavery 52 It shall moreover be the duty of the commanders of such commissioned vessels to apprehend and take into custody every person found on board.

1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 602 The heavy Armstrong guns..are being supplied to all the newly commissioned ships.

1901 Times 31 Dec. 12/2 The only officers..who subsequently profited by their experience in a commissioned fleet of battleships.

1963 Motor Boating Sept. 23/1 A little more than a mile up the harbor, floats the Navy's oldest commissioned vessel, the Constellation.

2014 P. Gardella Amer. Civil Relig. vii. 64 The U.S.S. Constitution..still serves as a commissioned vessel in the US Navy.