Definition of Commence

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Definition of Commence
	Commence To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. To begin to be, or to act as. To take a degree at a university. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. Related Definitions: Act, As, At, Be, Begin, Beginning, Degree, Enter, First, Have, Of, Or, Origin, Originate, Perform, Start, Take, The, To, University, Upon

Commence Quotations

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
James Monroe

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
Ernestine Rose

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
David Ginola

Commence Translations

commence in Afrikaans is begin, instel
commence in Danish is begynde
commence in Dutch is aanbinden, beginnen, aanvangen
commence in Finnish is aloittaa
commence in German is starten, beginnen
commence in Latin is incipio, ineo
commence in Norwegian is begynne
commence in Spanish is principiar, comenzar, empezar, ponerse

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