Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-MIS'SION, v.t.

1. To give a commission to; to empower or authorize by commission. The president and senate appoint, but the president commissions. – United States.
2. To send with a mandate or authority. A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian land. – Dryden.
3. To authorize or empower. Note. Commissionate, in a like sense, has been used, but rarely.