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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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COMMANDED ACT

In the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, an action of some human faculty or power, directed by the free will to do or not to do what the will orders should be done or not done.