committal

== English == === Etymology 1 === From commit +‎ -al. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /kəˈmɪtəl/ Rhymes: -ɪtəl ==== Noun ==== committal (countable and uncountable, plural committals) The act of entrusting something to someone. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. The act of perpetrating an offence. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation. ===== Alternative forms ===== commital ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== commit commitment noncommittal committal hearing ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From committee +‎ -al. ==== Adjective ==== committal (not generally comparable, comparative more committal, superlative most committal) Of or relating to a committee. Of or relating to commitment. ===== Derived terms ===== === Further reading === “committal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “committal”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.