ppl. a. Begun; graduated: see the vb.

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1588.  R. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 98. The new commenced Loytias.

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1647–8.  Cotterell, Davila’s Hist. Fr. (1678), 12. To establish the foundation of their commenced greatness.

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1669.  Milton (title), Accedence commenc’t Grammar.

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