The place in which public records or historic documents
are kept.
Public records or documents preserved as evidence of
facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence ...
