commanding meaning
EN- NounPLcommandingsPREcom-SUF-ing
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- AdjectiveCOMmore commandingSUPmost commanding
- Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- Impressively dominant.
- a commanding structure
- Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
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- 1611, Bible (KJV):, Acts 24:8, Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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