commence


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
commence/kəˈmens/
verb start or cause to start; begin.
– origin ME: from OFr. commencier, comencier, based on L. com- (expressing intensive force) + initiare ‘begin’.
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