Meanings
- not comparableNot commissioned.
Why should not a widow, having two uncommissioned sons in the army, have her remaining son exempt, as well as if her husband were still living?
1864, Various, The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I1 more example
One single individual, amidst a vast empire nearly overthrown, surveys its danger with steady eye: he measures, he appreciates it, and ventures, perhaps uncommissioned, to devote all the public and private interests a sacrifice to it.
1825, Count Philip de Segur, History of the Expedition to Russia
Origin
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