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Word Meanings - COMMIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak. 2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These

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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. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak. 2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These two were commited. Clarendon. 3. To do; to perperate, as a crime, sin, or fault. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ex. xx. 14. 4. To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with. Dr. H. More. 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. Junius. Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States. Marshall. 6. To confound. Committing short and long . Milton. To commit a bill , 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. Syn. -- 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.

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    In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
  • ADMONISHER
    One who admonishes.
  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • CONSIGNER
    One who consigns. See Consignor.
  • DIVORCEABLE
    Capable of being divorced.
  • DIRECTER
    One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
  • CHARGEANT
    Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
  • ALLOTTABLE
    Capable of being allotted.
  • ASSAULTABLE
    Capable of being assaulted.
  • DISSEVER
    To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
  • ALLOTRIOPHAGY
    A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • ACCUSE
    Accusation. Shak.
  • REFER
    1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • DISSOCIATE
    To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
  • REFERENTIAL
    Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • DISCONNECT
    To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • MISCHARGE
    To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
  • MISADVISE
    To give bad counsel to.
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    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • ENCHARGE
    To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
  • PREFERMENT
    1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
  • REACCUSE
    To accuse again. Cheyne.
  • BALLOTER
    One who votes by ballot.

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