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Commute

verb

(past & past part. commuted; pres. part. commuting)

Exchange positions without a change in value. Synonym: transpose.

Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.

Change the order or arrangement of. Synonyms: permute, transpose.

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one. Synonyms: convert, exchange.

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category. Synonyms: change, convert, exchange. "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"

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"Commute" Quotes from Famous Books

... condemned to death for witchcraft, and for the staying of proceedings in several other cases, to remain unnoticed, and without remarking upon the consequences which may ensue. There is also a letter from your secretary of state, declaring your majesty's intention to commute the punishment of these criminals into one of perpetual banishment, and to submit to the opinion of the procureur-general, and of the most learned members of the parliament of Paris, whether, in the matter of witchcraft, the jurisprudence ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... particular vow is not to be observed, this is called a "dispensation" from that vow; but if some other obligation be imposed in lieu of that which was to have been observed, the vow is said to be "commuted." Hence it is less to commute a vow than to dispense from a vow: both, however, are in the ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... acknowledge to have killed a slave, to have assisted at the death of a Jew, and to have drowned an aga, you certainly deserve death; but, on consideration of the excellence of the wine, and the secret which you have imparted to us, I shall commute your sentence. As for the captain and the remainder of the crew, they have been guilty of treachery and piracy on the high seas—a most heinous offence, which deserves instant death; but as it is by their means that we have been put in possession of the wine, I shall be lenient. ...

— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat

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