from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The act of entrusting.
noun The act or an instance of committing to confinement.
noun The act of pledging oneself to a particular view or position.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The act of committing, in any of the senses of the verb; commitment; commission: as, the committal of a trust to a person, of a body to the grave, of a criminal to prison; the or a committal (compromising, betrayal, exposure) of one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The act of entrusting something to someone.
noun The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
noun The act of perpetrating an offence.
noun The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
adjective Of or relating to a committee.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the act of committing a crime
noun the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
Etymologies
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commit + -al (noun) or committee + -al (adjective)
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Examples
Something succinct and non committal is usually good along the lines of Thank you for your communication.
As for his next session, and possible date for a Grapefruit League start, Santana was non-committal, which is how the Mets will handle his schedule for the rest of this month.
Chase has been more honest with Fabio, but "over the past few days," just since Fabio began winning every Immunity Challenge, Sash been more "committal" to him, whatever the hell "committal" means.
Chase has been more honest with Fabio, but "over the past few days," just since Fabio began winning every Immunity Challenge, Sash been more "committal" to him, whatever the hell "committal" means.
I found it out quite by accident — a few words dropped into a letter, a corroboration of the fact and further committal, a protracted defence of your position, running through a correspondence of over a year, and, finally, a face-to-face declaration.
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