Commence vs Men - What's the difference?
commence | men |
To begin, start.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Oliver Goldsmith)
* , chapter=4
, title= To begin to be, or to act as.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
* Fuller
(man)
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men .
(lb) (The) people, humanity.
As a verb commence
is to begin, start.As a noun men is
irregular plural of man.As an acronym MEN is
acronym of multiple endocrine neoplasia.As a proper noun Men is
a god once worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia, and associated with lunar symbolism.commence
English
Verb
(commenc)- Here the anthem doth commence .
- His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- We commence judges ourselves.
- I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.