comaunden
Middle English
FWOTD – 10 February 2020
Alternative forms
- comanden, commaunden, commanden, comaunde, comande, commaunde
Etymology
From Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, variant of commendāre; doublet of commenden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈmau̯ndən/, /kuˈmandən/, /kɔ-/
Verb
comaunden (third-person singular simple present comaundeth, present participle comaundende, comaundynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle comaunded)
- To command; to order (someone to do something)
- To demand; to order (something should be done)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 9:4, page 120r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- ⁊ it was comau[n]did to he[m].· þat þei ſchulde[n] not hirte þe gras of erþe. neþ[er] ony greene þing. neiþ[er] ony tree but oneli men.· þ[a]t han not þe ſigne of god i[n] her forhedis
- And they were told that they shouldn't hurt the ground's grass, anything green, or any tree, but only humans that didn't have the sigil of God on their foreheads.
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- To dominate; to exercise power over.
- To grant or consign to someone.
- (rare) To need; to be required.
Conjugation
Conjugation of comaunden (weak in -ed/suffixless)
| infinitive | (to) comaunden, comaunde | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | comaunde | comaunded, comaunde | |
| 2nd-person singular | comaundest | comaundedest, comaundest | |
| 3rd-person singular | comaundeth | comaunded, comaunde | |
| subjunctive singular | comaunde | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | comaunden, comaunde | comaundeden, comaundede, comaunden, comaunde | |
| imperative plural | comaundeth, comaunde | — | |
| participles | comaundynge, comaundende | comaunded, comaund, ycomaunded, ycomaund | |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Related terms
- comaundable
- comaunde
- comaundement
- comaundour
- recomaunden
Descendants
- English: command
- Scots: command
References
- “commaunden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-07.