Verb

(head)

(commence)

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

(head)

(embark)

Verb

(en verb)

To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.

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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked , which is disquieting and fussy.

To start, begin.

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(label) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

(label) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.

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*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

*:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.