'o 
federal fuccefsful negociations. After this king’s death 
lie experienced many troubles on account of being a fo¬ 
reigner, by the envy of other courtiers, and lay long in 
prilbn before he was difeharged: lie died in 1509. Co¬ 
niines was a man of more natural abilities than learning ; 
he fpoke feveral living, but knew nothing of the dead, 
languages: he has left behind him fome memoirs of his 
own times, that are admired by all true judges of hittory. 
Catharine de Medicis ufed to Jay, that Comines made as 
many heretics in politics as Luther had in religion. 
CO'MING,/ The afit of coming ; approach: 
Sweet the coming on 
Of grateful evening mild. Milton. 
State of being come ; arrival—Some people in America 
counted their years by the coming of certain birds amongft 
them at their certain feafons, and leaving them at others. 
Locke. 
CO'MING-IN,/. Revenue; income: 
What are thy rents ? what are thy comings-in ? 
O ceremony, (hew me but thy worth! 
What is thy toll, O adoration ? Sbakefpeare. 
CO'MING, part. adj. Fond ; forward ; ready to come. 
—•That he had been fo affefilionate a hufband, was no ill 
argument to the coining dowager. Dryden. 
On morning wings how afilive fprings the mind ! 
How eafy every labour it purfues, 
How coming to the poet ev’ry mufe 1 Pope. 
Future; to come: 
Praife of great afils he fcatters, as a feed 
Which may the like in coming ages breed. Rofcommon. 
COMITA'TU COMMISSO, in law, a writ or com- 
miflion whereby a flieriff is authorized to take upon him 
the charge of the county. And comitatu et cajiro com- 
tnijjo, a w'rit by which the charge of a county, together 
with the keeping of a caltle, is committed to the flieriff. 
Reg. Orig. 295. 
COMITA'TUS, in law', a county. Ingulphus tells us, 
that England was firft divided into counties by king Al¬ 
fred ; and counties into hundreds,-and thefe again into 
tithings ; and Fortefcue writes, that regnum Anglia per co- 
mi tat us ut regnum Rrancia per ballivatus difiinguitur. It is 
alfo taken for a ten itory or jurifdifilion of a particular 
place, as in Mat. Paris, anno 1234. and in divers old char¬ 
ters. According to lord Littleton, each county was an¬ 
ciently an earldom, fo that, previous to the reign of king 
Stephen, there were not any titular earls, nor more earls 
than counties, though there might be fewer. As to the 
divifions of counties into hundreds and tithings, fee the 
article County. 
COMI'FIA,/ An affembly of the Roman people. The 
word is derived from comitium , the place where they were 
convened, quafi a cum eundo. The comitium was a large 
hall, which was left uncovered at the top, in the firft ages 
of the republic 5 fo that the affembly was often diffolved 
in rainy weather. The comitia were called, fome confu- 
laria, for the elefition of the confuls ; others pratoria, for 
the elefition of praetors, See. Thefe affemblies were more 
generally known by the name of comitia curiata, centuri- 
ata, and tributa. The curiata was when the people gave 
their votes by curiae. The centuriata were not con¬ 
vened in later times. Another affembly was called comi¬ 
tia tributa, where the votes were received from the whole 
tribes together. At firft the Roman people were divided 
only into three tribes ; but, as their numbers increafed, 
the tribes were at lalt fwelled to thirty-five. The objefit 
of thefe affemblies w-as the defiling of magiftrates and all 
the public officers of ftate. They could be diffolved by 
one of the tribunes, if he differed in opinion from the reft 
of his colleagues. If one among the people was taken 
with the falling ficknefs,the whole affembly was immedi¬ 
ately diffolved, whence that difeafe is called morbus comi - 
talis. After the cuftom of giving their votes ’viva voce 
had b^en abolifhed, every one of the affembly, in enafil- 
ing of a law, was prefented with two ballots, on one of 
which w'ere the letters U. R. that is, uti rogas, be it as it 
.is required ; on the other was an A. that is, antique, which 
bears the fame meaning as antiquam <volo, I forbid it, the 
old law is more preferable. If the number of ballots with 
U. R. was fuperior to the A’s, the law' was approved con- 
ftitutionally 5 if not, it was rejefiled, Only the chief ma- 
giltrates, and fometimes the pontifices, had the privilege 
of convening thefe affemblies. There were only theie 
eight of the magiftrates who had the power of propoling 
a law, the confuls, the dictator, the praetor, the interrex, 
the decemvirs, the military tribunes, tiie kings, and the 
triumvirs. Thefe were called majores magifrratus ; to 
whom one of the minores magifratus was added, the tri¬ 
bune of the people. See Rome. 
COMI'TIAL, adj. Relating to the affemblies of the 
people of Rome. 
COMITI'VA,/. A companion or fellow-traveller: it 
is mentioned in Brompton, regn. Hen. II. And fome¬ 
times it fignifies a troop or company of robbers: as in 
Walfingham, anno 1366. 
COMITLA'N, a town of North America, in Mexico, 
and province of Chiapa : feventy miles fouth-eaft of 
Chiapa dos Efpagnols. 
CO'MITY, y. [comitas , Lat.] Courtefy ; civility; good 
breeding. 
COM'MA, f. [roft.iji.ct, Gr.J The point which notes 
the diftinfition of claufes, and order of conftrufilion, in 
the fentence ; marked thus [, ]. See Punctuation.— 
Commas and points they fet exafitly right. Pope. —The 
ninth part of a tone, or the interval whereby a lemi-tone 
or a pei fefil tone exceeds the imperfefil tone. It is a term 
ufed only in theorical mufic, to lhew theexafit proportions 
between concords. 
To COMMA'ND, <v. a. [commander , Fr. mando, Lat.] 
To govern ; to give orders to; to hold in fubjefition or 
obedience : correlative to obey. —Chrift -could command le¬ 
gions of angels to his refeue. Decay of Piety. 
Look, this feather, 
Obeying with my wind when I do blow. 
And yielding to another when it blows, 
Comsnanded always by the greater gull; 
Such is the lightnels of you common men. Sbakefpeare. 
To order; to direfil to be done: contrary to prohibit. —> 
We will facrifice to the Lord our God, as he fliall com¬ 
mand ws. Exodus, viii. 27. 
Whatever hypocrites aufterely talk 
Of purity, and place, and innocence, 
Defaming as impure what God declares 
Pure, and commands to fome, leaves free to all. 
Our maker bids increafe ; who bids abltain 
But our deftroyer, foe to God and man ? Milton , 
To have in power : 
If the ftrong cane fupport thy walking hand. 
Chairmen no longer fliall the wall command. Gay. 
To overlook; to have fo fubjefil as that it may be feeu 
or annoyed: 
Up to the eaftern tower, 
Whofe height commands as fubjefil all the vale. Shakcfp. 
To lead as a general: 
Thofe he commands move only in command, 
Nothing in love. Sbakefpeare. 
To COMMA'ND, v. n. To have the fupreme autho¬ 
rity ; to poffefs the chief power ; to govern.—Thofe two 
commanding powers of the lbul, the underftanding and the 
will. South. 
COMMA'ND, f The right of commandingj power; 
fupreme authority. It is uled in military affairs, as ma¬ 
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