1622 G. Calvert Let. in W. Prynne Hidden Workes Darkenes (1645) sig. D3^v Representing unto his Majesty how derogatory this course of commissioning was to the Jurisdiction of his Court of Admiralty.

1679 R. Baxter Which is True Church? ii. i. 74 He denyeth all Christ's visible teaching and government,..and all his Mission and Commissioning of his Apostles.

1742 T. Birch Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe VII. Index at Lilburn Opposes the giving Monck a power of commissioning.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica I. i. x. 123 The indiscreet commissioning of unqualified and mean persons to be officers.

1831 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 351 This man, shortly after the commissioning of the E—— , had..been impressed from an English merchant ship.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Feb. 11/2 The complete commissioning of our police for the Russian service.

1916 Southern Reporter 69 774/1 The said appointment and commissioning of the said J. Turner Butler by the Governor of the state of Florida as judge.

1942 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 8 Nov. 9/4 A change in the enlisting and commissioning procedure..has been announced by..the Charleston navy recruiting station.

1987 Jrnl. N.Z. Lit. No. 5. 113 It is intended that Mary Paul's work will provide a model for future commissionings by the Archive.

2006 Big Issue 3 July 38/1 (advt.) You will work with the Art Director on design, page layout, commissioning..and some picture research and scanning.

1689 Ld. Chancellours Discov. & Confession (single sheet) (verso) I acted by the Commissioning Vengeance that sent me thither, to inform the Heretick Enemies of Rome, how much their Blood Tickles when it Streams.

a1762 T. Pearsall Reliquiæ Sacræ (1765) II. xi. 247 If the Almighty speaks the commissioning Word to a Rheumatism, my Hands will forget to labour, or I must be obliged to Crutches to support my feeble steps.

1814 E. Christian Origin, Progress, & Present State Bankrupt Law II. 669 There is no decision..that he [sc. the bankrupt] does not owe one hundred pounds to the commissioning creditor.

1871 C. Sumner Let. 18 June in Sel. Lett. (1990) II. vii. 563 The recognition of the duty of a neutral Power to exclude from its ports..any armed vessel..which does not hold a commission delivered in some port..in the actual occupation of the commissioning Government.

1942 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 8 Nov. 9/4 A change in the enlisting and commissioning procedure..has been announced by..the Charleston navy recruiting station.

1982 K. A. Marling Wall-to-wall Amer. i. 51 Public art involved three constituencies: the painter, the commissioning agency, and the people.

2012 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 July 16 Such polls should be treated with care, with the aims and motivations of the commissioning party taken into account.

1958 Times 1 July 1/5 (advt.) Central office of information require a chief commissioning editor, with original ideas, to supervise planning and commissions of Feature Articles for overseas use.

1968 Guardian 10 Sept. 13/3 (advt.) Commissioning Editor…in…Projects Department. This department initiates and develops ideas for new books and finds and commissions authors for them.

1989 Lit. Rev. Dec. 40/2 Isaacs intentionally chose many commissioning editors who had little or no experience of television.

2005 K. Fletcher Journalist’s Handbk. iv. 69 You will soon learn..when commissioning editors are free to talk, [and] which are the lean times of the year when they are desperate for ideas.