(ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
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The soldier was commanded to cease firing.
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The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.
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We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
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1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Revenge”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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Go to your mistress: / Say, I command her come to me.
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c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]: