ppl. a. [f. COMMAND v. + -ED.] Ordered by authority; bidden, prescribed, forced. † b. Under regular military command (as opposed to volunteer).
a. 1586. Cartwright, in Answ. to Cartwright, 89. They haue not his commanded discipline.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., Induct. i. 125. A womans guift To raine a shower of commanded teares.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxxi. 189. Sometimes it is a Commanded, sometimes Voluntary Worship.
a. 1671. Ld. Fairfax, Mem. (1699), 10. Major General Gifford with a commanded party, beat them out again.
1724. De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 89. I think there was not more commanded men than volunteers.
