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e in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak.

The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

Capable of being committed.

The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.

r by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of dif…

A member of a committee.

One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

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

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.

liberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or p…

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

a new reign. -- Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.

tor when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

To commit adultery; to pollute. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To commit adultery. [Obs.]

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.