Commissioned officer
A commissioned officer is a member of a military force who holds a commission or writ of authority from a political leader or government.Commissioned officers are authorized to use deadly force to carry out the lawful orders of their government, either directly or through orders to non-commissioned officers or soldiers.
Having officers is one requirement for combatant status under the laws of war.
Commissioned Officer Ranks
See also: military, warrant officer, laws of war
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honourable moral instinct men can hardly refrain from putting into an
modified its spelling. Thus it may have been with 'hurricane.' In the
by this West-Indian tornado, many have seen an explanation of the name;
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into our tongue of the Spanish 'huracan.'
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society which have now passed so entirely away as to survive in these
many affirm, from 'stipula,' a straw; and tells of a Roman custom, that
[Footnote: See on this disputed point, and on the relation between the
J. Grimm, _Deutsche Rechtsalterthuemer_, pp. 121, sqq. [This account of
cognates of the word see Curtius, _Greek Etymology_, No. 224.]] they
history is laid up in 'curfew,' or 'couvre-feu.' The 'limner,' or
time when the _illumination_ of manuscripts was a leading occupation of
pawnbrokers, even as they were the first bankers, in England: a
stored his pledges. [Footnote: See my _Select Glossary_, s. v. Lumber.]
'_signing_ our name,' we preserve a record of a time when such first
few, that it was not as now an exception, but the custom, of most
not being ashamed to set this _sign_ or cross to the weightiest
now we do. As often as we term arithmetic the science of.
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