Reverse Dictionary: COMMAND

ADJECTIVES
► BIDDEN commanded, ordered → 1614
► IMPERANT commanding, ruling → 1617 obs.
► IMPERATE commanded, ruled → 1470 obs.
► IMPERATORIAL 1. pert. to or befitting a commander or emperor; imperial → 1660
2. pert. to absolute command → 1690 obs.
► IMPERATORIAN pert. to or befitting a commander or emperor; imperial → 1640 obs.
► IMPERATORIOUS pert. to or befitting a commander or emperor; imperial → 1625 obs.
► IMPERATORY pert. to or befitting a commander or emperor; imperial → 1616 obs.
► JUSSIVE expressing a command or order → 1846
► JUSSORY pert. to command → 1613 obs.
► MANDATIVE pert. to command → 1651
► MANTLING of commanding aspect → 1875 Eng. dial.
► QUINQUAGENARIAN commanding fifty men → 1600 obs.

ADVERBS
► FAST of a command or prohibition: strictly → 1310 obs.
► IMPERATORIOUSLY as a commander or general → 1620 obs.

NOUNS
► ARDENE a command; an ordinance → 1852 obs. (Bk.)
► BEHESTING command, bidding → 1583 obs.
► DEMANDS commands, commissions → 19C Ireland
► EDICTION command, edict → 1470 obs.
► HOTE a command, an order → 1350 obs.
► I-BOD command, order → 888 obs.
► IMPERANCE commanding quality, commandingness → 1595 obs.
► IMPERATION a commanding → 1786
► IMPERATIVENESS commanding quality; authoritativeness → 1840
► IMPERE a command, an order → 1548 Sc. obs.
► IMPERIUM command; absolute power; supreme or imperial power → 1651
► IMPERY command, dominion, sovereignty; imperial or supreme rule or authority → 1300 obs.
► I-WALD command, control, command; possession → 1000 obs.
► JUSSION order, command → 1773 
► MAGISTRATION command, direction → 1490 obs.
► MANDAMENT command, injunction → 1834 obs.
► MANDMENT a command, an order; that which is commanded; also, a commanding, command, rule → 1297 obs.
► SAW a decree, command → 1300 obs.
► WALD command, control → 1908 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► A1 a title for the commander of 900 men → 1866 obs.
► BIDDER a person who commands or orders → 1340
► DEAN a commander, head, or chief of a division of ten → 1388 obs.
► DECADARCH a commander of ten in ancient Greece → 1794
► DECENER a commander of ten soldiers → 1555 obs.
► DECURION a commander or captain of ten men → 1382
► DOYEN a commander of leader of ten → 1422 obs.
► ELECTO a commander or leader chosen by mutineers → 1609 obs.
► GENERAL a commander, a leader; a ruler → 1582
► HEAD a commander, a leader; a ruler; a person to whom others are subordinate; a principal person → 897 
► IMPERATOR a commander or ruler; absolute ruler; an emperor → 1588
► LEAD-MASTER a leader, a commander → 1791 Sc.
► MARSHAL a commander; a general; a leader → 1300 obs.
► MASTER a commander, a ruler; one having direction or control over the action of others; a leader; a chief; a governor → 1000 obs.
► MYRIARCH a commander of ten thousand men → 1623 
► NAVARCH the commander of a fleet’ an admiral (Greek Antiq.) → 1828
► OLD MAN the commander of a unit → 1865 US Civil War usage
► WARDEN the commander of a fortress → 1297 obs.

VERBS
► AWELD to be in command of someone or something: to rule or reign over a people or place; to govern → 1175 obs.
► BIBEDE to command, to bid → 1000 obs.
► BOD to command → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GUY to command an army, etc.; to govern or rule a country; to administer or manage affairs or an office → 1330 obs.
► I-BEDE to command, to proclaim, to offer → 800 obs.
► IMPERATE to command, to rule, to govern → 1599 obs.
► IMPOSE to place in command or office; to appoint or set up authoritatively → 1617 obs.
► MAND to command → 1483 obs.
► MANDATE to command → 1623 obs.
► MANDY to command → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MORIGERATE to do as commanded; to obey, to comply → 1623 obs.
► ORDAIN to command, to order, to bid a person to do something, or that a thing be done → 1375 obs.