committal
/kəˈmɪtəl/ noun, adjective
Forms committals commital
- noun The act of entrusting something to someone.
- noun The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- noun The act of perpetrating an offence.
- noun The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
- adjective Of or relating to a committee.
- adjective Of or relating to commitment.
Synonyms
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “committal”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details