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With terrible comminations to all them that
did resist.

Foxe.

Those thunders of commination.

I. Taylor.

2. An office in the liturgy of the Church
of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's
anger and judgments against sinners.

Com*min"a*to"ry (?), a. [Cf. F.
comminatoire.] Threatening or denouncing punishment;
as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.

Com*min"gle (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Commingled (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Commingling (?).] To mingle
together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.
Bacon.

Com"mi*nute (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Comminuted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Comminuting.] [L. comminutus, p.
p. of comminuere to comminute; com- +
minuere to lessen. See Minute.] To reduce to
minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to
triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to
comminute food with the teeth.


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