Definition of commit

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Commit (v. t.) 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..

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Alibi :: Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi..
Perpetrator :: Perpetrator (n.) One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime..
Memorize :: Memorize (v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.
Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order..
Fornicate :: Fornicate (v. i.) To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
Intrust :: Intrust (v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant..
Standing :: Standing (a.) Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees..
Directory :: Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic..
Remorse :: Remorse (n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life..
Burglary :: Burglary (n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not..
Trespass :: Trespass (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against..
Verdict :: Verdict (n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause..
Vest :: Vest (n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts..
Committable :: Committable (a.) Capable of being committed.
Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
Chairman :: Chairman (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body..
Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..
Solecist :: Solecist (n.) One who commits a solecism.
Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry..
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