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Commanding

adjective

Used of a height or viewpoint. Synonyms: dominating, overlooking. "Looked up at the castle dominating the countryside" , "The balcony overlooking the ballroom"

Command

verb

(past & past part. commanded; pres. part. commanding)

Be in command of.

Make someone do something. Synonym: require.

Demand as one's due. "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"

Look down on. Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop.

Exercise authoritative control or power over. Synonym: control. "Command the military forces"

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"Commanding" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Zilleh, which contains 2000 houses, stands on the site of Zela. A hill rises abruptly above the plain near the centre of the present town, and occupies a commanding position. The appearance of the place corresponds very well with Strabo's description (p. 561), in whose time it was the capital of Zelitis. (Hamilton's ...

— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch

... "We built also a fort for a retreat, near a convenient river, upon a high commanding hill, very hard to be assaulted, and easie to be defended: but ere it was halfe finished, this defect caused a stay," it is recorded in The Proceedings of the English Colonies in Virginia (1612). This was envisioned as a place of refuge in the event that enemy attack would ...

— The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 • Charles E. Hatch

... unworthy ending to a very worthy life. And yet a movement which has created two such men as Chunder Sen and Protab Mozumdar is a compliment to Christianity and has a mission before it. But it must undergo many changes ere it can exercise a commanding influence ...

— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones

... palace, and violated the leisure of his rural solitude. But the lives and fortunes of millions hung on his arbitrary will; and the firmest minds, superior to the allurements of pomp and luxury, may be seduced by the more active pleasure of commanding their equals. The legislative and executive powers were centred in the person of the monarch, and the last remains of the authority of the senate were finally eradicated by Leo the philosopher. [67] A lethargy of servitude ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... officer, quite a boy still and evidently only just out of the Cadet College, who was zealously commanding the two guns entrusted to ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

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