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commencement

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[ US /kəˈmɛnsmənt/ ]
[ UK /kəmˈɛnsmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the time at which something is supposed to begin
    they got an early start
    she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
  2. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
  3. the act of starting something
    he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
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How To Use commencement In A Sentence

  • For an indictable offence, there is no formal time limit for the commencement of a prosecution.
  • Another survey at this location will be carried out after the commencement of the new school year. 3.
  • Traced downward, it covers the antero-superior surface of the stomach and the commencement of the duodenum, and is carried down into a large free fold, known as the gastrocolic ligament or greater omentum. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
  • Best wishes and sincere congratulations on your graduation.May this special day be the commencement of the continued series of upward steps to further success.
  • At the commencement of the next song, the girl turns around to face her partner.
  • From this latter practice arose their name — CONDOTTIERI; a term formidable all over Italy, for a period, which concluded in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, but of which it is not so easy to ascertain the commencement. The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • The two would get together at each commencement to compare their graduate tallies.
  • Far Orientals begin their year when Nature begins hers, instead of starting anachronously as we do in the very middle of the dead season, much as our colleges hold their commencements, on the last in place at on the first day of the academic term. The Soul of the Far East
  • The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
  • The Infinite and the Absolute are _only_ the names of two counter _imbecilities_ of the human mind" [296] -- that is, a mental inability to conceive an absolute limitation, or an infinite illimitation; an absolute commencement, or an infinite non-commencement. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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