Definition of "military commission" []

• An official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "These executions excited equal horror and indignation, and General Carra St. Cyr was obliged to issue a proclamation for the dissolution of the military commission by whom the men had been sentenced."
• "In fact, a military commission is a very different proceeding than a court-martial, which gives defendants many of the same kind of rights that an American civilian trial entitles them to."
• "Federal Executive, and citizens ordered to be tried by military commission for what they may dare to speak."