[f. COMMAND v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. COMMAND; a command, order, injunction.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 5104 (Cott.). All your bidding agh be til vs als comanding.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, I. 256. And syne Do furth his lordis commandyne.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 615. He … whose onely thinking is a commanding.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, III. 251. We have … no Revilings, no Commandings, nor Complainings.
