Word Meanings - COMMITMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon. 2. A warrant

Additional info about word: COMMITMENT

1. The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon. 2. A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus. 3. The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill. 4. A doing, or preperation, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission. 5. The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged. Hamilton.

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  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
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  An instigator. Shak.
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  That may be compounded.
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  Imprisonment. Shak.
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  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
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  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
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  An innholder.
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  To imprison again.
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