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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English commencen, comencen (also as contracted comsen, cumsen), from Anglo-Norman comencer, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, formed from Latin com- + initiō (whence English initiate)."
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To begin, start.\n1601, William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle,\nHere the anthem doth commence:\n1770, Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” in The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, London: W. Griffin, 1775, p. 164,\nHis heaven commences ere the world be past!\n1851 November 14,  Herman Melville,  chapter 4, in  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one, by the by, and then—still minus his trowsers—he hunted up his boots.\n1913,  Joseph C. Lincoln,  chapter 4, in  Mr. Pratt's Patients: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."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.\n1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 126,\n   he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.\n1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, London: Taylor & Hessey, Prudential Aphorisms, Aphorism 15, p. 48,\nWhen we are wearied of the trouble of prosecuting crimes at the bar, we commence judges ourselves"
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              "mean": "(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.\n1655,  Thomas Fuller,  “The Seventh Century”, in James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London:     for Thomas Tegg and Son, , published 1837, →OCLC, book, page 75:  I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown  \n1861, George John Gray, Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1586-1609 (page 272)\n   was admitted a minor fellow of his college 4 Oct. 1591, a major fellow 11 March 1591-2, and commenced M.A. in 1592."
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