Committal Meaning
/kəˈmɪtəl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of entrusting something to someone.
nounThe act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
Sentence Examples
The committal ceremony was emotional.
The judge considered the committal of the defendant.
The court issued a committal order for the accused suspect.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The judge ordered the ____ of the patient to a secure mental facility.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He attended the final ____ service at the quiet cemetery.
Word Origin & History
From commit + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience."
— 1869, Medical Record, volume 3, page 17:
"He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method."
— 1997, Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism, page 138:
"Notice also that the credibility of noncommittal observational beliefs will compare in a similar way with the credibility of more committal (or theoretical) observational beliefs, such as belief that addition of a base solution to an acid solution (to take the more committal, or theoretical, version of the noncommittal observational belief just mentioned)."
— 1989, David Owen Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, page 138:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The judge ordered the ____ of the patient to a secure mental facility.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He attended the final ____ service at the quiet cemetery.