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Noun
/kəˈmitl/,
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committals, plural;
  1. The action of sending a person to an institution, esp. prison or a psychiatric hospital
    • - his committal to prison
    • - committal proceedings
  2. The burial of a corpse

  1. commitment: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
  2. perpetration: the act of committing a crime
  3. In law, a committal procedure is the process by which a defendant is charged with a serious offence under the criminal justice systems of all common law jurisdictions outside the United States. ...
  4. The hearing process where a magistrate decides whether there is sufficient evidence to send an accused to trial by judge and jury.
  5. A person charged with a serious crime may be committed to remain in an institution pending trial on indictment.
  6. A procedure in the magistrates court where the court hears evidence in relation to an indictable offence in order to decide whether the matter should be sent to a higher court
  7. the portion of a funeral ceremony at the gravesite where last words are said before interment
  8. A ceremony held at the grave or crematorium focusing on disposition of the deceased's remains.
  9. The committal is a particularly solemn moment of the funeral service. It takes place either at the graveside or, in the case of a cremation, in the crematorium chapel or in church before the hearse leaves for the crematorium.
  10. The last part of the funeral service whereby the final words are said by the officiant, whether a cremation in a chapel or a burial in a cemetery
  11. Generally refers to a person being sent to prison or fined for breach of an Order