committal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of entrusting something to someone.

2. 2

   The act of committing someone to confinement

   The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.

3. 3

   The act of perpetrating an offence.

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   1. 4

      The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

   2. 5

      Of or relating to a committee.

   3. 6

      Of or relating to commitment.

      • On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience.
      • He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method.

The neighborhood

• neighborcommit
• neighborcommitment
• neighbornoncommittal
• neighborcommittal hearing