Formally requested or hired to create something; officially authorized or put into service.
From Old French 'comis,' from Latin 'committer,' meaning to entrust or commit. The 'official authorization' sense comes from military use where officers were 'commissioned' into service.
When an artist gets a 'commissioned' work, they're following a tradition that goes back centuries—nobles and kings would commission paintings, sculptures, and music by hiring the greatest artists of the time. This created the patronage system that literally funded the Renaissance.
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