4. A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
5. The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of
being pledged or engaged. Hamilton.
Committable
(Com*mit"ta*ble) a. Capable of being committed.
Committal
(Com*mit"tal) n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Committee
(Com*mit"tee) n. [Cf. OF. comité company, and LL. comitatus jurisdiction or territory of a
count, county, assize, army. The word was apparently influenced by the verb commit, but not directly
formed from it. Cf. County.] One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business
is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
Committee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative
or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under
the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee
of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations. — Standing
committee. See under Standing.
Committee
(Com`mit*tee") n. [From Commit, v. t.] (Law) One to whom the charge of the person or
estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
Committeeman
(Com*mit"tee*man) n. A member of a committee.
Committer
(Com*mit"ter) n.
1. One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South.
2. A fornicator. [Obs.] T. Decker.
Committible
(Com*mit"ti*ble) a. Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Commix
(Com*mix") v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Commixed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Commixing.] [Pref. com-
+ mix: cf. L. commixtus, p. p. of commiscere. See Mix.] To mix or mingle together; to blend.
The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white.
Sir I. Newton.
To commix
With winds that sailors rail at.
Shak.
Commixion
(Com*mix"ion) n. [See Commix.] Commixture. Shak.
Commixtion
(Com*mix"tion) n. [L. commixtio.] Commixture; mingling. [R.]
An exact commixtion of the ingredients.
Boyle.
Commixture
(Com*mix"ture) n. [L. commixtura.]
1. The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or
compound.
In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy.
Bacon.
2. The mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture. Bacon.
Commodate
(Com"mo*date) n. [L. commodatum thing lent, loan.] (Scots Law) A gratuitous loan.
