comaunden

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, variant of commendāre; doublet of commenden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuˈmau̯ndən/, /kuˈmandən/, /kɔ-/

Verb

comaunden (third-person singular simple present comaundeth, present participle comaundende, comaundynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle comaunded)

  1. To command; to order (someone to do something)
  2. To demand; to order (something should be done)
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey , transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 9:4, page 120r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      ⁊ it was comaudid to he.· þat þei ſchulde not hirte þe gras of erþe. neþ ony greene þing. neiþ ony tree but oneli men.· þt han not þe ſigne of god i her forhedis
      And they were told that they shouldn't hurt the ground's grass, anything green, or any tree, but only humans that didn't have the sigil of God on their foreheads.
  3. To dominate; to exercise power over.
  4. To grant or consign to someone.
  5. (rare) To need; to be required.

Conjugation

Conjugation of comaunden (weak in -ed/suffixless)
infinitive (to) comaunden, comaunde
present tense past tense
1st-person singular comaunde comaunded, comaunde
2nd-person singular comaundest comaundedest, comaundest
3rd-person singular comaundeth comaunded, comaunde
subjunctive singular comaunde
imperative singular
plural1 comaunden, comaunde comaundeden, comaundede, comaunden, comaunde
imperative plural comaundeth, comaunde
participles comaundynge, comaundende comaunded, comaund, ycomaunded, ycomaund

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: command
  • Scots: command

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