Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto..

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault..

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course..

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To confound.

Commit :: Commit (v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent..

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison..

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill..

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission..

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged..

Committable :: Committable (a.) Capable of being committed.

Committal :: Committal (n.) The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment..

Committed :: Committed (imp. & p. p.) of Commi.

Committee :: Committee (n.) One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together..

Committee :: Committee (v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian..

Committeeman :: Committeeman (n.) A member of a committee.

Committer :: Committer (n.) One who commits; one who does or perpetrates.

Committer :: Committer (n.) A fornicator.

Committible :: Committible (a.) Capable of being committed; liable to be committed.

Committing :: Committing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commi.

Noncommittal :: Noncommittal (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Recommit :: Recommit (v. t.) To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee..

Recommitment :: Recommitment (n.) Alt. of Recommitta.

Recommittal :: Recommittal (n.) A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

Subcommittee :: Subcolumnar (a.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

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