committal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈmɪtəl/

Noun

committal (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

Translations

the act of putting a body into a grave

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, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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