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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)
- To command; to order (someone to do something)
- To demand; to order (something should be done)
c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], 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 comau[n]did to he[m].· þat þei ſchulde[n] not hirte þe gras of erþe. neþ[er] ony greene þing. neiþ[er] ony tree but oneli men.· þ[a]t han not þe ſigne of god i[n] 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.
- To dominate; to exercise power over.
- To grant or consign to someone.
- (rare) To need; to be required.
Conjugation
infinitive
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(to) comaunden, comaunde
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present tense
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past tense
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1st-person singular
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comaunde
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comaunded, comaunde
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2nd-person singular
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comaundest
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comaundedest, comaundest
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3rd-person singular
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comaundeth
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comaunded, comaunde
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subjunctive singular
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comaunde
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imperative singular
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—
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plural1
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comaunden, comaunde
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comaundeden, comaundede, comaunden, comaunde
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imperative plural
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comaundeth, comaunde
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participles
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comaundynge, comaundende
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comaunded, comaund, ycomaunded, ycomaund
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1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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