Verb

(commenc)

To begin, start.

* (William Shakespeare)

Here the anthem doth commence .

* (Oliver Goldsmith)

His heaven commences ere the world be past.

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To begin to be, or to act as.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

We commence judges ourselves.

(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

* Fuller

I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.

Verb

(organiz)

To (l) in working order.

To (l) in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.

* Cranch

This original and supreme will organizes the government.

To (l) with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.

* Ray

These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.

(music) To sing in parts.

to organize an anthem

(Busby)