. . might
possibly be considered as
committing the faith of the
United States.
Marshall.6. To confound. [An obsolete
Latinism.]
Committing short and long [quantities].
Milton.
To commit a bill (Legislation),
to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be
considered and reported. --
To commit to
memory, or
To commit,
to learn by
heart; to memorize.Syn. -- To Commit, Intrust,
Consign. These words have in common the idea of
transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another.
Commit is the widest term, and may express only the
general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to
commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may
have the special sense of intrusting with or without limitations,
as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of
consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison.
To intrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise
of confidence or trust; as, to intrust a friend with the
care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more
formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly
or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a
pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to
an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.
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