Definition of Commits

1. Verb. (third-person singular of commit) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commits

1. commit [v] - See also: commit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commits

commit a bill
commit point
commit suicide
commit to memory
commital
commitment
commitment-phobe
commitment-phobes
commitment-phobia
commitment-phobic
commitment of mentally ill
commitmentphobe
commitmentphobes
commitments
commitology
commits (current term)
commits suicide
committable
committal
committal service
committal to memory
committal to writing
committals
committed suicide
committedly
committedness
committee
committee meeting
committee member

Literary usage of Commits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"The Man who commits the Offence; III. The Woman on whom it is committed; IV. The Kind of Force necessary; V. The Consent which will prevent the Act from ..."

2. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"HENRY III., UPON COMPLAINT OF ELIZABETH, commits THOMAS MORGAN TO THE BASTILE. — THE PRIEST POLE* AND MORGAN IN PARIS. — POLEY IN THE FAMILY OF SIR PHILD? ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"... and in large measure commits the administration of the scheme to the State Water Board and officers acting under the supervision of its members. ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"In 1888 the organization of the denomination was completed in a new constitution and charter, which commits to the Convention made up exclusively of ..."

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