So I thought the word Committed and Doers together scared me! I am commanded to be a doer and feel like a failure because i am not "Comfortable" spreading the gospel as a "Disciple" although i have some of the words in my heart not many stay in my memory. Although I AM Not Afraid to acknowledge HIM for ALL HE Does in me and my life; I have fear of the world and those in it that my challenge me or my faith.
SO what does it mean to commit - 8 dictionary results (i think more than 8 don't count too many) AND Is there a difference to be Committed? Let's e Honest there is too much reading below for me to read and analyse in one setting, not to mention it's time to get ready for work, that is NOT being a DOER is it? See my dilemma?
I made it down to Usage i commented and Bolded some thoughts :)
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com⋅mit /kəˈmɪt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuh-mit] Show IPA verb, -mit⋅ted, -mit⋅ting.
–verb (used with object) 1. to give in trust or charge; consign.
2. to consign for preservation: to commit ideas to writing; to commit a poem to memory.
3. to pledge (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; express (one's intention, feeling, etc.): Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to commit himself.
4. to bind or obligate, as by pledge or assurance; pledge: to commit oneself to a promise; to be committed to a course of action.
5. to entrust, esp. for safekeeping; commend: to commit one's soul to God.
6. to do; perform; perpetrate: to commit murder; to commit an error.
7. to consign to custody: to commit a delinquent to a reformatory.
8. to place in a mental institution or hospital by or as if by legal authority: He was committed on the certificate of two psychiatrists.
9. to deliver for treatment, disposal, etc.; relegate: to commit a manuscript to the flames.
10. to send into a battle: The commander has committed all his troops to the front lines.
11. Parliamentary Procedure. to refer (a bill or the like) to a committee for consideration.
–verb (used without object) 12. to pledge or engage oneself: an athlete who commits to the highest standards.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME committen (< AF committer) < L committere, equiv. to com- com- + mittere to send, give over
Related forms:
com⋅mit⋅ta⋅ble, adjective
com⋅mit⋅ter, noun
Synonyms:
6. carry out, effect, execute.
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com·mit (kə-mĭt')
v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits
v. tr.
To do, perform, or perpetrate: commit a murder.
To put in trust or charge; entrust: commit oneself to the care of a doctor; commit responsibilities to an assistant.
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
To consign for future use or reference or for preservation: commit the secret code to memory.
To put into a place to be kept safe or to be disposed of.
To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue: I never commit myself on such issues.
To bind or obligate, as by a pledge: They were committed to follow orders.
To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.
v. intr.
To pledge or obligate one's own self: felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.
[Middle English committen, from Latin committere : com-, com- + mittere, to send.]
com·mit'ta·ble adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to give over to another for a purpose such as care or safekeeping. Commit has the widest application: The troops were committed to the general's charge. I committed the sonata to memory. The patient was committed to the hospital.
To consign is to transfer to another's custody or charge: The owner consigned the paintings to a dealer for sale.
Entrust and confide stress trust in another: The task was too dangerous to be entrusted to a child. She confided her plans to her family.
To relegate is to assign to a specific and especially an inferior category or position: Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.
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Commit
Com*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Committed; p. pr. & vb. n. Committing.] [L. committere, commissum, to connect, commit; com- + mittere to send. See Mission.]
1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
Commit thy way unto the Lord. --Ps. xxxvii. 5.
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. --Shak.
2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
These two were committed. --Clarendon.
3. To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. --Ex. xx. 14.
4. To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
5. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign. --Junius.
Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . 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.
~~~Usage: 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.
Commit
~~~Com"mit\, v. i. To sin; esp., to be incontinent. [Obs.]
What's this? exactly what i am afraid of Sin If I DO and SIN if i DOn't
Commit not with man's sworn spouse. --Shak.
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Language Translation for : commit
Spanish: cometer, German: begehen,
Japanese: 犯す
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commit
c.1390, from L. committere "to bring together," from com- "together" + mittere "to put, send" (see mission). Evolution into modern range of meanings is not entirely clear. Sense of "perpetrating" was ancient in L. Intransitive use (in place of commit oneself) first recorded 1982, probably influenced by existentialism use (1948) of commitment to translate Sartre's engagement "to emotionally and morally engage."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: com·mit
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: com·mit·ted; com·mit·ting
transitive verb 1 a : to put into another's charge or trust : ENTRUST, CONSIGN
2 : to carry into action deliberately : PERPETRATE committed on the high seas —U.S. Constitution article I>
3 : OBLIGATE, BIND intransitive verb : to obligate or bind oneself commit to the irrevocable order>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: com·mit
Pronunciation: k&-'mit
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: com·mit·ted;com·mit·ting
: to place in a prison or mental institution committed by the court to a state hospital> —com·mit·ta·ble /-'mit-&-b&l/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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commit com·mit (kə-mĭt')
v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
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