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- Commencement - n. - The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
- Commencement - n. - The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
- Summer - n. - A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
- Salutatorian - n. - The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.
- Ectolecithal - a. - Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.
- Abdomen - n. - The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
- Deal - n. - Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
- Recommencement - n. - A commencement made anew.
- Frostfish - n. - The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
- Valedictory - n. - A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
- Fac - n. - A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
- Accidental - n. - A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- New-year - a. - Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
- Accession - n. - The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Leucophlegmacy - n. - A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
- From - prep. - Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
- Beginning - n. - The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- Paragenic - a. - Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.
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- G746 ἀρχή - 746 ἀρχή - ἈΡΧΉ - - archḗ - ar-khay' - from ἄρχομαι; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H8462 תְּחִלָּה - 8462 תְּחִלָּה - תְּחִלָּה - - tᵉchillâh - tekh-il-law' - from חָלַל in the sense of opening; a commencement; rel. original (adverb, -ly); begin(-ning), first (time). - Noun Feminine - heb