COMMISSIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissioned mean? 

• COMMISSIONED (adjective)
  The adjective COMMISSIONED has 2 senses:

1. (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above

2. given official approval to act

  Familiarity information: COMMISSIONED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above

Antonym:

noncommissioned ((of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Given official approval to act

Synonyms:

accredited; commissioned; licenced; licensed

Context example:

authorized representative

Similar:

authorised; authorized (endowed with authority)

 Context examples 

Calling back the servant, therefore, she commissioned him, though in so breathless an accent as made her almost unintelligible, to fetch his master and mistress home instantly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mendoza and Dutch Sam were commissioned to attend to Berks, while Belcher and Jack Harrison did the same for Boy Jim.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Palmer appeared quite well, and I am commissioned to tell you, that you will certainly see her to-morrow.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I have been commissioned to recover this immensely important paper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And a non-commissioned officer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She is Mr. Rochester's ward; he commissioned me to find a governess for her. He intended to have her brought up in —shire, I believe. Here she comes, with her 'bonne,' as she calls her nurse."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny was just beginning to collect herself, and to feel that if she staid longer behind it might seem disrespectful, when this point was settled, and being commissioned with the brother and sister's apology, saw them preparing to go as she quitted the room herself to perform the dreadful duty of appearing before her uncle.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The girls were now hunting for the Laconia; and Captain Wentworth could not deny himself the pleasure of taking the precious volume into his own hands to save them the trouble, and once more read aloud the little statement of her name and rate, and present non-commissioned class, observing over it that she too had been one of the best friends man ever had.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have been commissioned to meet him, and—to make the best terms I can.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognise our innocence (if innocent we be: as I know you are of this charge which Mr. Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs. Reed; for I read a sincere nature in your ardent eyes and on your clear front), and God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)