commissioned

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commissioned (not comparable)

1. Holding a commission; officially appointed.
   • 1836, Acts passed at the Second Session of the Twelfth Legislature of the State of Louisiana, page 52:

     And be it further enacted, &c. That any commissioned auctioneer who shall violate any of the provisions contained in this act, shall for any such offence or violation, forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the manner prescribed for other forfeitures in the act aforesaid,

   • 1870, The Law Reports: The public general statutes - Volume 5, page 571:

     Nothing in this Act contained shall subject ot forfeiture any commissioned ship of any foreign state, or give to any British court over or in respect of any ship entitled to recognition as a commissioned ship of any foreign state any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not passed.

   • 1907, Political, page 513:

     The colonel of each regiment shall appoint his commisioned and non-commisioned staff officers as follows: One surgeon of the rank and grade of major, and one adjutant, one chaplain, one quartermaster, one commissary of subsistence, one inspector of rifle practice, one ordnance officer, one inspector of the guard, and two assitant surgions, each of the rank and grade of capatin […]

2. Specially ordered.
   • 2008, Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design, page 103:

     Completion marks the end of the process where the commissioned artwork is delivered to the client.

   • 2019, Alexandra Parker, Samkelisiwe Khanyile, Kate Joseph, Where do we draw the line?: Graffiti in Maboneng, Johannesburg, page 99:

     In Figure 47, a doodle of a cat has been added to a commissioned mural, and subsequently covered by a poster.

   • 2022, David H. Jernigan, Jih-Cheng Yeh, “Summary of a commisioned paper on the scope and size of global alcohol marketing”, in WHO, editor, Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion, page 136:

     (see chapter title)

commissioned

1. simple past and past participle of commission

• decommission