committal

committal

English

Etymology

commit +‎ -al (noun) or committee +‎ -al (adjective)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmɪtəl/

Noun

committal (countable and uncountable, plural committals)

1. The act of entrusting something to someone.
2. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
3. The act of perpetrating an offence.
4. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

Alternative forms

• commital

Related terms

• commit
• commitment
• noncommittal
• committal hearing

Translations

the act of putting a body into a grave

Maori: tanumanga

Adjective

committal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a committee.

Further reading

• committal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• committal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.