Citations:commanded


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So he commanded his man to light the candle, and bid Christian follow him: so he had him into a private room, and bid his man open a door; the which when he had done, Christian saw the picture of a very grave person hang up against the wall; and this was the fashion of it.
 * Then I saw in my dream that he commanded them to lie down; which, when they did, he chastised them sore, to teach them the good way wherein they should walk [Deut. 25:2]; and as he chastised them he said, "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent." [2 Chron. 6:26,27, Rev. 3:19] This done, he bid them go on their way, and take good heed to the other directions of the shepherds.
 * The King then commanded to open the gate, "That the righteous nation," said he, "which keepeth the truth, may enter in." [Isa. 26:2]


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards.


 * 1873 — James Edw. Alexander, Bush Fighting Illustrated by Remarkably Actions and Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand, page 252:
 * After marching some two and a half miles, the right flank of the line of march became commanded by a range of hills covered with thick fern, affording a very strong position, and on which the advance guard skirmishers discovered the enemy skilfully posted.


 * 1881 — James Andrew S. Colquhoun, With the Kurram field force, 1878-79, page 200:
 * Following up the enemy for about half a mile on this ground, the open stony bed became commanded by a high bank, which was lined by matchlock-men, who thus covered the retreat of their comrades into the village behind them on the bank, [...]


 * 2003 — Sharon Todd, Learning from the other: Levinas, psychoanalysis, and ethical possibilities, page 52:
 * The self becomes commanded by the face of the Other to respond to her presence.