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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

... the mistress of the house! She was a lady of elephantine proportions, in her sixtieth year, and wore a white camellia stuck in her rosewood-colored hair. Her face and arms were plastered with enough flour to make a plate of fritters; but for all that, she had a grand air and superb eyes, whose commanding glance was softened by so kindly a smile that Amedee was ...

— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee

... specimen of art, but it is certainly a very effective picture. This battle of the 5th of May was another Waterloo for the French. An apartment known as Maximilian's room is shown to the visitor, situated in the corner of the palace, having two windows at right angles and thus commanding a view in two directions, one window overlooking the plaza, the other the business streets leading to the market. A room called the hall of Iturbide is hung in rich crimson damask, displaying the eagle and serpent, which ...

— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou

... said to him in a commanding tone: "The spring appears to be good. Go bring me a pint of Rhenish wine from the ...

— The Amulet • Hendrik Conscience

... Service, and for this service we demand the picked men of our church. The appointments that have been made already are some of them most unsuitable, some, I regret to say, scandalous. Let me tell you, sir, of an experience in Winnipeg only last week. It was, my fortune to fall in with the commanding officer of a Saskatchewan unit. I found him in a rage against the church and all its officials. His chaplain had become so hilarious at the mess that he was quite ...

— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor

... halted and crawled behind projections to a point commanding a view over an extraordinary section of country. The peaks were off to the left. In the foreground were gullies, ridges, and canyons, arroyos, all glistening with choyas and some other and more numerous white bushes, and ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

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