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Summoning vs Commanding - What's the difference?

summoning | commanding |

As verbs the difference between summoning and commanding

is that summoning is while commanding is .

As nouns the difference between summoning and commanding

is that summoning is the act by which somebody is summoned while commanding is the act of giving a command.

As an adjective commanding is

tending to give commands, authoritarian.

summoning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is summoned.
    • spirit summonings

    commanding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.

    • Synonyms

    * (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a command.
  • * 2006 , William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 172)
    • God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.