committal
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
commit + -al (noun) or committee + -al (adjective)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
committal (plural committals)
- The act of entrusting something to someone.
- The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- The act of perpetrating an offence.
- The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
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TranslationsEdit
the act of putting a body into a grave
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AdjectiveEdit
committal (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a committee.
Further readingEdit
- committal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- committal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911