COMMISSION-MERCHANT, n. A merchant who transacts business as the agent of other men, in buying and selling, and receives a rate per cent. as his commission or reward.
COMMISSION, v.t.
1. To give a commission to; to empower or authorize by commission. The president and senate appoint, by the president commissions.
2. To send with a mandate or authority.
He fist commissions to the Latian land.
3. To authorize or empower.
Note: Commissionate, in a like sense, has been use, but rarely.
