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Commit
COMMIT, v.t. Literally, to send to or upon; to throw, put or lay upon. Hence,
1. To give in trust; to put into the hands or power of another; to entrust; with to.
Commit thy way to the Lord. Psa 37.
The things thou hast heard of me, commit to faithful men. 2 Tim 2.
2. To put into any place for preservation; to deposit; as, to commit a passage in a book to memory; to commit the body to the grave.
3. To put or sent to, for confinement; as, to commit an offender to prison. Hence for the sake of brevity, commit is used for imprison. The sheriff has committed the offender.
These two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty.
4. To do; to effect or perpetrate; as, to commit murder, treason, felony, or trespass.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. Exo 20.
5. To join or put together, for a contest; to match; followed by with; a latinism.
How does Philopolis commit the opponent with the respondent.
6. To place in a state of hostility or incongruity. Committing short and long words. But this seems to be the same signification as the foregoing.
7. To expose or endanger by a preliminary step or decision which cannot be recalled; as, to commit the peace of a country by espousing the cause of a belligerent.
You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship without committing the honor of your sovereign.
8. To engage; to pledge; or to pledge by implication.
The general--addressed letters to Gen. Gates and to Gen. Heath, cautioning them against any sudden assent to the proposal, which might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
And with the reciprocal pronoun, to commit ones self, is to do some act, or make some declaration, which may bind the person in honor, good faith, or consistency, to pursue a certain course of conduct, or to adhere to the tenor of that declaration.
9. To refer or entrust to a committee, or select number of persons, for their consideration and report; a term of legislation; as, the petition or the bill is committed. Is it the pleasure of the house to commit the bill?
commit appears in definitions for these words:
Abettor Accessory Accuse Actual Admonish Adulterate Aggress Agreeable Alibi Anxious Ask Assart Attend Audacious Bailee Bankrupt Barrator Bestowment Betrust Betrusted Betrusting Bigamist Bill Bishop Blank Blood Borough Burglar Burglariously Burglary Bury Butcher Butchery Caryon Cattle Censor Chair-man Charge Cheat Client Closet-sin Commend Commended Commending Commissary Commission Commit Commitment Committed Committee Committeeship Committer Committible Committing Composition Compound Compromise Compunctious Con Confederacy Confide Confided Confiscation Consign Consignation Consigned Consigner Consigning Consignment Consignor Conspiracy Conspirant Conspirator Conspire Conspiring Convince Crime Criminal Custody Delegate Delegated Delegating Delinquent Deliver Delivered Demand Depose Deposit Depositary Depredate Depredation Deprehend Discretion Disguise Distress Duress Entry Err Error Evil Evildoer Expilation Expository Faulter Felly Felon Felonious Felonniously Force Forfeit Fornicate Forswear Guardian Guilt Guilty Heart High Homicide House-breaking Impeached Imputable Incest Indite Inditing Inspector Instigation Instigator Institution Intestate Intrust Intrusted Join Judgment Know Lapse Lay Leather-seller Locate Lot Lust Make Malefactor Maroon Marshal Memorize Miscalculating Mischievousness Misdo Misdoer Misdoing Mittimus Motion Murderess Murderous Mutiny Neck Offend Offender Offending Outrage Paralogism Parridicious Pen Penning Perjury Perpetrate Perpetrated Perpetrating Perpetration Perpetrator Pillage Plan Practice Prejudge Prison Profess Proxy Prudential Prudentials Purgatory Purloining Pursuant Put Recommend Recommit Recommitment Recommitted Recommitting Refuge Remorse Report Resolve Schismatize Sedative Sequestrator Shoplifting Shy Solecism Solecize Spoliate Stealth Study Sub-committee Submit Suspect Swanimote Tenacious Tenderness This Treachery Treasurer Trespass Trespasser Trust Trustee Uncommitted Unerring Unfavorable Unlawful Unsinning Verdict Verify Vicar Visiting Voluntary Ward
Abettor Accessory Accuse Actual Admonish Adulterate Aggress Agreeable Alibi Anxious Ask Assart Attend Audacious Bailee Bankrupt Barrator Bestowment Betrust Betrusted Betrusting Bigamist Bill Bishop Blank Blood Borough Burglar Burglariously Burglary Bury Butcher Butchery Caryon Cattle Censor Chair-man Charge Cheat Client Closet-sin Commend Commended Commending Commissary Commission Commit Commitment Committed Committee Committeeship Committer Committible Committing Composition Compound Compromise Compunctious Con Confederacy Confide Confided Confiscation Consign Consignation Consigned Consigner Consigning Consignment Consignor Conspiracy Conspirant Conspirator Conspire Conspiring Convince Crime Criminal Custody Delegate Delegated Delegating Delinquent Deliver Delivered Demand Depose Deposit Depositary Depredate Depredation Deprehend Discretion Disguise Distress Duress Entry Err Error Evil Evildoer Expilation Expository Faulter Felly Felon Felonious Felonniously Force Forfeit Fornicate Forswear Guardian Guilt Guilty Heart High Homicide House-breaking Impeached Imputable Incest Indite Inditing Inspector Instigation Instigator Institution Intestate Intrust Intrusted Join Judgment Know Lapse Lay Leather-seller Locate Lot Lust Make Malefactor Maroon Marshal Memorize Miscalculating Mischievousness Misdo Misdoer Misdoing Mittimus Motion Murderess Murderous Mutiny Neck Offend Offender Offending Outrage Paralogism Parridicious Pen Penning Perjury Perpetrate Perpetrated Perpetrating Perpetration Perpetrator Pillage Plan Practice Prejudge Prison Profess Proxy Prudential Prudentials Purgatory Purloining Pursuant Put Recommend Recommit Recommitment Recommitted Recommitting Refuge Remorse Report Resolve Schismatize Sedative Sequestrator Shoplifting Shy Solecism Solecize Spoliate Stealth Study Sub-committee Submit Suspect Swanimote Tenacious Tenderness This Treachery Treasurer Trespass Trespasser Trust Trustee Uncommitted Unerring Unfavorable Unlawful Unsinning Verdict Verify Vicar Visiting Voluntary Ward
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