Word Finder - committing

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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

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To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.

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To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.

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Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

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To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

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to commit a series of heinous crimes

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To join a contest; to match; followed by with.

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To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)

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to commit oneself to a certain action

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To make a set of changes permanent.

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(Latinism) To confound.

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To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

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To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

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The act by which something is committed.

Livia was suspected of committing various crimes to secure the throne for Tiberius, whereas Augustus naturally favoured the claims of his blood-relatives.

Thus, in 1492 the Turks made incursions into Carinthia as far as Laibach, and into Styria as far as Cilli, committing unspeakable atrocities; in 1493 they overran both Styria and Croatia.

In the state reformatory at Elmira (which, like that at Napanoch, is for men between sixteen and thirty years of age who have been convicted of a state prison offence for the first time only), the plan of committing adult felons on an indeterminate sentence to be determined by their behaviour was first tested in America in 1877, and it has proved so satisfactory that it has been in part adopted for the state prisons.

The severity with which Henry treated the last rebels was regarded as a blot upon his fame; but the only case of merely vindictive punishment was that of the poet Luke de la Barre, who was sentenced to lose his eyes for a lampoon upon the king, and only escaped the sentence by committing suicide.

The allies were thus afforded an opportunity of committing the very blunder which Napoleon longed for, namely to attempt a risky forward concentration.

But it did not stop the heinous acts he's committing.

But in November 1898, on the occasion of the renewal of the commercial convention with Austria, the attack on the ministry was renewed with unprecedented virulence, obstruction being systematically practised with the object of goading the government into committing illegalities, till Banffy, finding the situation impossible, resigned on the 17th of February 1899.

Holdings hands like an old world family; we were committing our lives together like marriage vows.

The fundametal difficulty which confronts those who would distinguish between pleasure and eudaemonia is that all pleasure is ultimately a mental phenomenon, whether it be roused by food, music, doing a moral action or committing a theft.

Dublin was saved by its inhabitants committing it to the flames, and, though nineteen victories were won, of which that at Slane in Louth by Robert was counted the chief, the success was too rapid to be permanent.

The difficulty, however, is more apparent than real, and in this sense, that if we start with a diseased organ as our subject of inquiry, we can quite properly, and without committing a solecism, treat of the functions of that organ in terms of its diseased state.

He leaves his wife, if she will not accompany him, and goes forth into the forest, committing her and his house to his sons.

But not stopping the heinous acts he's committing.

Yet I think his committing suicide would be a pretty drastic response.

Police can give a reprimand to a young person who admits committing a minor crime.

Seven of them who refused to pledge themselves to obedience were put to death; the Shiites considered them as martyrs and accused Moawiya of committing a great crime.

In one, a large circular tomb, were found three sepulchral couches in stone, carved in imitation of wood, and a fine statuette in bronze of Ajax committing suicide.

By committing herself to this system the Church of Scotland established between herself and the Church of England a division which became more and more apparent and was the cause of much of her subsequent sufferings.

He was present when the latter subject was introduced, and he entreated the fathers to study the subject well before committing themselves to a decision.

The society also maintained Beggar Colonies for the compulsory detention of persons committing the offence of begging.

Knox had already by letter formally broken with the earl of Moray, "committing you to your own wit, and to the conducting of those who better please you"; and now, in one of his greatest sermons before the assembled lords, he drove at the heart of the situation - the risk of a Catholic marriage.

This territorial arrangement eliminated all sectarian distinctions, and also the possibility of committing the different churches as such to any particular policy.

But being determined to vindicate the traditional claims of his family in north Connaught, he aided Hugh Maguire against the English, though on the advice of Tyrone he abstained for a time from committing himself too far.

At the same time he made a careful study of the Bible, committing to memory the entire New Testament both in English and in Greek.

But Ito felt that his knowledge of foreigners, if it was to be thorough, should be sought for in Europe, and with the connivance of Choshu he, in company with Inouye and three other young men of the same rank as himself, determined to risk their lives by committing the then capital offence of visiting a foreign country.

Henry VI., it is argued, had broken the tacit compact which the house of Lancaster had made with the nation; instead of committing the administration of the realm origin of to ministers chosen for him by, or at least approved the Wars by, his parliament, he persisted in retaining in office of the persons like Suffolk and Somerset, who had for- Roses.

Between 1811 and 1814 hands of so-called Luddites, starving operatives out of work, scoured the country, smashing machinerythe immediate cause of their misfortunesand committing every sort of outrage.

Without forgetting that Augustine was partly a symptom and only in part a cause - without committing ourselves to the one-sidedness of the great-man method of construing history - we must do justice to his supreme greatness.

For no punishments can prevent the individual from becoming a person of whatsoever character he chooses or from committing acts of whatsoever moral quality he determines to prefer.

A British subject committing bigamy in any country may be tried for the same in the United Kingdom (Earl Russell's case, 1901).

By statute in some states, upon absence cf one spouse from the state for five years without being heard of, the other may marry again without committing bigamy, in other states the period is seven years.

In most states, it is perfectly legal to bust a cap in someone who is involved in committing a violent felony.

It would be wrong to remove freewill just to stop somebody committing evil.

He accused the sub-committee of committing a " schoolboy howler " in its presentation of the evidence.

He would have been also attracted to the concept that God is faithful despite the unfaithfulness of his people in committing idolatry.

Remember, if it moves, its likely committing libel in some way shape or form.

Orestes was persued by the Furies for committing matricide, they drove him mad and he chased him from land to land.

It would be adding insult to injury and committing a second evil, to repudiate a wife to whom you have made solemn vows.

If you do so without permission from the landowner you may be committing trespass and be asked to leave.

The oligarchical party considered it a disgrace to obey a simple boyar; conspiracies were frequent, the rural districts were desolated by famine and plague, great bands of armed brigands roamed about the country committing all manner of atrocities, the Cossacks on the frontier were restless, and the government showed itself incapable of maintaining order.

By Matthew Gregory Lewis again "Timour" is depicted as the conventional tyrant of a gorgeous melodrama, slaying, burning, slaughtering and committing every possible atrocity until checked by a violent death and a poetical climax.

The circumstance which has given popular interest to the lemming is that certain districts of the cultivated lands of Norway and Sweden, where in ordinary circumstances they are unknown, are, at uncertain intervals varying from five to twenty or more years, overrun by an army of these little creatures, which steadily and slowly advance, always in the same direction, and regardless of all obstacles, swimming streams and even lakes of several miles in breadth, and committing considerable devastation on their line of march by the quantity of food they consume.

Under these clauses Only when people are committing or threatening to commit a criminal or tortious act can they be prosecuted.

You are committing no crime whatsoever and you will not be usurping any title that cannot legally be sold.

Are they committing a mortal or a venial sin?

In some countries, hand or foot amputations are a punishment for committing a crime.

More selective than friends and family, angel investors will do more analysis before committing funds.

In doing so, they are committing their child to a life of service to Christ.

If going for a totally new style or material, try to find out whether the style is comfortable when worn, whether the fabric feels comfortable at different times of the day and so on before committing yourself to the purchase.

Ask around and figure out the potential value of the card in detail before committing yourself to an expensive purchase.