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.
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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
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
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
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
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
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
John Amery
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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