Usually means: Promise or commitment through language.
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  1. commissive: Merriam-Webster
  2. commissive: Wordnik
  3. commissive: Wiktionary
  4. Commissive, commissive: Dictionary.com
  5. Commissive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Commissive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. commissive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Commissive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. commissive: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Commissive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (commissive)

adjective:  By commission; resulting from a positive act.
adjective:  (pragmatics) Making a commitment, such as a promise or threat, by illocutionary means.
noun:  (pragmatics) A speech act by which a commitment is made, such as a promise or threat.

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