Meanings of first commencement in English

This, in its first commencement, was extremely charming.

From the first commencement of their attack, the two falcons had followed a separate course of action.

Even then she had intended to be affectionate,-hadso intended at the first commencement of her address.

The college received its charter in 1693, and held its first commencement in 1700.

This has just been demonstrated at the first commencement of the only school conducted in a New York factory.

Marie Antoinette had, therefore, difficulties and enemies to contend with from the very first commencement of her residence in France.

There is always a difficulty in the first commencement of agricultural enterprise in a wild country, and much patience is required.

This was the first commencement of my friendship with Adrian, and I must commemorate this day as the most fortunate of my life.

He then stated that a case had arisen for Divine interposition, equal in necessity to any which had occurred since the first commencement of Christianity.

The first Commencement in the new meeting-house was held in 1834.

The first Commencement was in July, 1870, and the addresses were in three languages.

But there is reason to believe that President Dunster sat in it, when he held the first Commencement at Harvard College.

At the first Commencement, all the magistrates, elders, and invited guests who were present "dined," says Winthrop in his Journal, Vol.