Commence is a fancy way of saying "begin." Your invitation to a formal wedding might note, "The ceremony will commence at noon."
To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
Verb
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let''s get down to work now"
Verb
set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
Verb
get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a su
v. i.
To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start;
to begin.
v. i.
To begin to be, or to act as.
v. i.
To take a degree at a university.
v. t.
To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
Commence
Here the anthem doth commence.
His heaven commences ere the world be past.2.
We commence judges ourselves.3.
I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.
Commence
Many a wooer doth commence his suit.
To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
Usage Examples
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Other Usage ExamplesAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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