n. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
n. The act of perpetrating an offence.
n. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
adj. Of or relating to a committee.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of committing, in any of the senses of the verb; commitment; commission: as, the committal of a trust to a person, of a body to the grave, of a criminal to prison; the or a committal (compromising, betrayal, exposure) of one's self.
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n. the act of committing a crime
n. the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
Word Usage
"Something succinct and non committal is usually good along the lines of Thank you for your communication."