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Commit   /kəmˈɪt/   Listen
verb
Commit  v. t.  (past & past part. committed; pres. part. committing)  
1.
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; used with to, unto. "Commit thy way unto the Lord." "Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave."
2.
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. "These two were committed."
3.
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
4.
To join for a contest; to match; followed by with. (R.)
5.
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. "You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign." "Any sudden assent to the proposal... might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States."
6.
To confound. (An obsolete Latinism.) "Committing short and long (quantities)."
To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported.
To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.
Synonyms: To Commit, Intrust, Consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of intrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To intrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to intrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.


Commit  v. i.  To sin; esp., to be incontinent. (Obs.) "Commit not with man's sworn spouse."





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... come here, all of you; I must give you orders for by and by, and arrange what each one will have to do. Come nearer, Dame Claude; let us begin with you. (Looking at her broom.) Good; you are ready armed, I see. To you I commit the care of cleaning up everywhere; but, above all, be very careful not to rub the furniture too hard, for fear of wearing it out. Besides this, I put the bottles under your care during supper, and if any one of them is missing, or if anything gets broken, you will ...
— The Miser (L'Avare) • Moliere
... he rolled out in sonorous tones, "have the goodness to button up your pockets, and to be on the qui vive. I just saw the door darkened by a sinister-looking figure, which crept in as if to commit a burglary, a petty larceny, a scholastic form of shop-lifting, or some crime of that kind, so be upon your guard. Did any one else see ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... worth no more than so many pebbles. But sometimes Pop wondered if Sattell ever thought of the value of the mine's production. If he would kill a woman and two children and think he'd killed a man for no more than a hundred dollars, what enormity would he commit for a three-gallon quantity ...
— Scrimshaw • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... my dictatorship,' he said, 'suppose we set up parliamentary government, are you ready to take your share? Are you ready to combine, to commit yourselves? Are you ready for an effort to turn this work into something lasting ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... and write to the viceroy that this seems to be the general practice, to judge from precedents found here, and that he is to issue the necessary orders for the execution of the above—unless he finds difficulties in the way which oblige him to do otherwise. Then, when the men on the ships commit any excesses on shore, let a case be made against them, and then referred to the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Various


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